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Chapter 16: The Ballroom.

Penulis: Stephanie
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-05-14 23:43:36

Lucas frowned at his realization, he had just made a huge mistake, he had called her Mia, it had not crossed his mind that he was supposed to give Emma an alias but when Adrian Peele had asked him to introduce her he just couldn’t think of any other name except Mia’s. He was relieved that he immediately thought of another name straight away or they would have caught his farse.

Emma for sure did resemble Mia but he had already run a background check and there was no connection. He made a mental
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