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Treat me like one

Penulis: Authoress Kemira
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-10 07:22:28

Liora’s POV

The war room felt different now. Not the cold, intimidating chamber it had once been when I was nothing more than Nikolai’s collateral.

I stood with my arms crossed, staring Nikolai down across the table. He had just finished briefing a small group of his most trusted men about the defector’s information: the secondary base, the routes, the chilling confirmation of another mole still breathing inside our walls.

The men had nodded, eyes hard with loyalty, and filed out after Dmitri
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