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Chapter 198

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POV: Kai

I didn't sleep that night.

While Nova finally crashed around three AM, exhausted from crying and panic, I sat in my home office making calls. First to Marcus, our lawyer. Then to the security company. Then to every contact I'd cultivated over thirteen years of waiting for this exact momen
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