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Truth Before Power

Kave Derry
last update Veröffentlichungsdatum: 25.11.2025 12:25:11

CHAPTER 74

Camryn's POV

I stood in the center of the Convocation chamber, five House leaders arrayed around me like judges at an execution.

The silence was absolute. Even the advisors along the walls had gone still, waiting to see if I’d actually dare to accuse the most powerful people in Lenore of conspiracy.

I dared.

“House Gold’s research began fifteen years before their destruction,” I said, my voice carrying through the stone chamber. “Eugene Breckenridge, their lead scientist, discovered
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