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CHAPTER 8

Author: ARPAN PORAME
last update publish date: 2026-03-04 21:19:10

The Price of Treachery

The morning after the gala, the city was in a state of shock.

Every newspaper, every blog, and every news channel carried the same image.

Sarah White, sitting on a runway in a pile of melted fabric, crying like a child.

And standing over her, like a dark goddess of justice, was Liora Thorne.

The headline of the Metropolis Gazette read.THE FALL OF WHITE COUTURE: FRAUD, GAMBLING, AND THE REBIRTH OF LIORA.

Liora sat at the breakfast table in Thorne Manor, sipping tea.

She wa
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