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Chapter 46 – The Funeral

Penulis: Ernest Brooks
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-05-07 01:31:34
Elena’ POV

There was a chill in the air, though the sun beamed down unrelentingly through the cathedral glass. Everything about the day felt wrong, too clear, too still, too bright for the kind of grief everyone pretended to carry in stiff black suits and veiled whispers.

But I wasn’t really one of them.

I slipped into the back pew, hidden beneath the brim of a wide black hat and dark veil. The lace netting obscured my face, and I was grateful for the anonymity it gave me. I wasn’t supposed to be here. I was told to stay away.

Told by Damien’s lawyer.

Told by the security team.

Told in that devastating, cryptic text.

"You need to come to the funeral".

Not ‘should’. Not ‘maybe’. “Need”.

I hadn’t responded. I’d packed my things in silence. And now, I was here, watching Damien Crest’s supposed funeral play out like a corporate PR event.

The chapel was full of Crest family associates, board members, and elites, everyone who mattered in the business world had shown up to mourn. Cameras
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