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TWENTY EIGHT - Dinner at the Hawthorne Home

作者: Lola S.T
last update 公開日: 2026-04-06 21:36:53
Dinner at the Hawthorne home was proving to be far more exhausting than Lydia had expected.

The dining hall was as suffocating as always. Portraits of dead Hawthornes stared down from the walls like they were personally disappointed in everyone still alive.

Lydia Valenmoor sat at the right side of her beloved James, She looked like the picture of a gentle and obedient future daughter-in-law.

Inside, she was counting enemies.

At the head of the table sat the Hawthorne grandmother Annabeth
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