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Chapter 90: Alone Among Shadows

Author: Judith C-Tagoe
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-12-04 21:52:36

Diana’s POV

I stared at Lucas, broken in ways I didn’t know he could be. Every word he had spoken earlier still echoed, colliding with the truths I thought I knew. And yet, even in my devastation, a sharp, irrational jealousy stabbed at me. Rebecca was dead, yet she lingered in Lucas’s heart, more present than I ever was. He had even taken her name. Everhart.

Call it foolish, call it misplaced priorities, but I needed to know. Did he love me, or was I just the living extension of a promise made to a woman he could never forget?

The printed proof trembled in my hand, a tangible evidence that tore holes into Gordon’s narrative. My eyes flicked from the document back to Lucas. My voice, barely steady, forced the question out before my heart could talk me out of it.

“Lucas… do you love me?”

The words seemed sacrilegious. His head snapped up as though I had uttered a spell that wasn’t meant for mortal ears. Shock and disbelief flickered across his face, his gaze searching, almost pleading,
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