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Chapter 37: Crowns and Ashes

Auteur: Edwinayuss
last update Date de publication: 2026-07-13 16:55:13

The grand ballroom of the fifty-eighth floor of Vance-Vane Tower had been transformed into an exquisite cathedral of gold and obsidian. The floor-to-ceiling glass windows offered a panoramic view of Blackwood City, its distant harbor lights blinking like diamonds scattered across dark velvet. Tonight, the city’s remaining elite—politicians, hedge-fund magnates, and dynastic heirs—had gathered under one roof, summoned not by an invitation, but by a command. They stood in hushed groups, their whi
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