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Chapter One Hundred: A Kiss for the Crown

作者: ASHVA
last update 公開日: 2026-10-31 21:51:18

Chapter One Hundred: A Kiss for the Crown

Kelsey's POV

Malakai's stare followed me down the gallery stairs.

I could still feel it between my shoulder blades, like a cold thumb pressed into my back. Three seconds, he'd held my eyes. Not blinking, his face as white as candle wax. Then he stepped behind the dais and was gone.

I'd been grinning at Zeus a moment before. The grin was still on my face, and it felt wrong, like a coat that belonged to someone else. I stopped on the landing and gripped t
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