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The Woman In The Room

Author: Miss Ching
last update publish date: 2026-08-08 14:01:26

Chapter 15

“Get your hands off me, Dante!”

I wrenched myself away from him as soon as we got to the end of the long east wing hallway. The air at the estate was thick with the suffocating tears of my mother and twenty years’ worth of blood-stained lies.

He paused, turning around to confront me behind that unshakeable façade of his. “We will return to the penthouse. The convoy is waiting.”

“No way am I going anywhere until you tell me what she meant!” I yelled, invading his personal space with m
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