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Three Weeks Before the Wedding

作者: Ella og
last update 公開日: 2026-11-03 13:39:18

CHAPTER SIX

DAMIEN’S POV

Three Weeks Before the Wedding

I never wanted to get married.

At least, not the way my family expected me to.

In the Vale family, marriage was never just about love. It was about power, bloodlines, and keeping secrets buried. My father had made that clear long before I became old enough to understand what he meant.

But I was thirty years old, the heir to Vale Enterprises, and apparently, it was time for me to fulfil another family duty.

I stood in my father’s study, sta
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