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Chapter 6 — The Man Who Should Be Dead

作者: Marionette
last update 公開日: 2026-03-20 16:14:04

The noise of the Aurora Club faded into nothing.

Aria couldn’t hear the crowd anymore.

Couldn’t hear Lena.

Couldn’t even hear her own breathing.

All she could see was the photo on her phone.

Her father.

Alive.

Victor Vale sat in a dimly lit room, his expression tired but unmistakable. Older. Thinner. But real.

Not a memory.

Not a ghost.

Real.

Her fingers tightened around the phone.

This wasn’t possible.

She had buried him.

Mourned him.

Spent three years learning to live without h
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