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Chapter 58 — The Real Enemy Revealed

Autor: Bellaberry
last update Data de publicação: 2026-09-29 07:06:46

POV: Kira

The truth did not arrive through rumor or secondary reports.

It arrived in Stefan’s own voice, spoken inside the private wing with no one else present to soften it.

He stood at the desk with a single old document open in front of him—something pulled from the sealed royal archives that only the king could access. The torn sleeve still lay at the edge of the wood. The open doorway still framed the adjoining chamber. Everything familiar remained in place. Only the weight in the room had
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