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Chapter 21: The Luncheon Interrogation

Author: Alexa
last update publish date: 2025-10-05 18:44:28

~Victor's POV~

The clink of the sterling silver fork against the Limoges porcelain plate was the only acceptable sound in the dining room, a metronome counting down the seconds until I inevitably lost my temper. Everything else was a grating, unnecessary cacophony.

And that included Mia's hair.

I watched, my jaw tightening imperceptibly, as she delivered the tenth....yes, the tenth....of the goddamn hair flips since we’d sat down for this farce of a luncheon. It was a fluid, practiced motion:
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