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Chapter 52: The Table Where Power Is Tested

Penulis: Nhelahsheere
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-12-29 00:34:35

Her father watched her closely. “Then prove it,” he said.

The dinner had begun. And Marcelline realized something with startling clarity— This table wasn’t testing her.

It was remembering her.

And tonight, she would remind it exactly who she had become.

For exactly three bites, they maintained the illusion of a normal dinner.

Then the first strike came—not from Alexander, but from one of the board members.

"Miss Odette," Gerald Hutchinson began, clearing his throat in that particular way people
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