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CHAPTER 130 — THE MOMENT AFTER

Author: A knight in skirt
last update Huling Na-update: 2026-01-04 15:26:57

The moment after silence breaks is never loud.

That was the lie people believed—that escalation announced itself with explosions, with raised voices, with blood on pavement and headlines written too quickly. In truth, the most dangerous moment came after the fracture, when everyone realized the rules had shifted but no one yet knew what the new ones were.

Liana woke with that understanding already settled in her bones.

The estate no longer felt suspended. It felt alert in a different way, as though the structure itself had leaned forward, listening for the next sound rather than holding its breath against it. The quiet was no longer restraint. It was anticipation.

She dressed slowly, deliberately, grounding herself in routine because routine reminded her that control did not vanish just because pressure increased. Outside her window, the sky was heavy with cloud, the kind that promised rain without offering it yet, and she recognized the parallel immediately.

The storm was comin
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