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Chapter 140 – Ghosts of the Past

Author: Excel Arthur
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-05-15 05:54:23

Lucas Arden stares out over the skyline from the upper floor of his penthouse office. The glass is pristine, revealing a panorama of twinkling lights that stretch to the horizon like fallen stars. The city beneath it is alive with movement—cars threading through streets like blood cells through veins, windows illuminating and darkening in the rhythm of countless lives being lived. Yet his own reflection is fractured against this backdrop of vitality, a shadow across the metropolitan glow. His e
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