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Chapter 138

Author: Leema Kamal
last update publish date: 2026-04-08 23:53:32

VICTORIA

I had never gone to Margaret. Not once in all of this.

Every time she had been involved, she had come to me or sent someone on her behalf. Lawyers. Journalists. Or people she had quietly placed in boardrooms and media circles.

She worked at a distance, the way people who were afraid of being caught tended to operate. And I had let her do it that way because it gave me space to track her without her knowing I was tracking her.

But that calculation had changed the moment Elio confirmed
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