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Chapter Nine

Author: Annabel Patrick
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-11 07:28:11

Cassie:

The moment I stepped foot back on campus, I knew almost everything had changed.

People didn’t look at me the same. I caught the lingering stares, the quick glances when they thought I wasn’t looking. Some people didn’t even bother pretending. Whispers curled around the courtyard like smoke, low and sharp.“That’s her,” “She was there when the attack happened,” “Is she really getting married?”

I kept my head high, pretending I didn’t hear any of it. Pretending like I hadn’t spent the last week locked away in a mansion, protected, monitored, and ultimately pressured into signing a marriage contract with a man who terrified me.

The attack on the college had been all over the news,brief, violent, and unexplained. We didn't know the names. We didn't have leads. No answers. But somehow everyone knew I’d been involved. Maybe not the details, but just enough to feed the rumors.

My friend Sydney was waiting for me by the library steps. Her arms crossed, eyes narrowed, mouth set in a str
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  • The Mafia's Silent Keeper   Twenty Nine

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  • The Mafia's Silent Keeper   Twenty Seven

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