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Chapter 27: New Cage, Same Devil

작가: Draven X
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POV: Elara

The underground safe house felt like a tomb.

There were no windows. No natural light. Just cold artificial bulbs humming constantly overhead, casting a sterile glow across thick concrete walls reinforced with steel plates. The air smelled faintly of metal, disinfectant, and dampness trapped beneath the earth for too many years.

Even the expensive furniture Dante had moved in, the massive king-sized bed, leather sofas, marble counters, heavy oak design table couldn’t disguise the trut
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