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Chapter 75: What I Don’t Say

Author: B.S. Turaki
last update publish date: 2026-04-07 02:01:11

Kaelen's POV

I knew something was wrong long before I had proof.

It wasn’t one moment or one mistake that led me there. It was a pattern—subtle, careful, almost invisible unless you were already looking for it. And the problem was, I had started looking without meaning to.

Nira had always been precise. That was what made her reliable. She didn’t miss details, didn’t act without purpose, didn’t speak unless she had already thought three steps ahead. It was one of the reasons we trusted her.

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