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Chapter 75: Sixty Thousand Strings

Author: Mia Kent
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-23 08:25:01

AIDEN'S POV

Aurora signed a contract saying she couldn't talk about it. She had no right to tell anyone.

Daniel took a puff from his cigarette and looked at me with a small smile.

“Don’t tell me you were dumb enough to add her to your bank accounts, Aiden.”

"No, but I send her sixty thousand dollars every month. She lives in my house, eats my food, and I pay for everything. I thought that would be enough money so she wouldn’t try to find another job."

"Well, that’s what she told the Landons. You know she works for them, right?"

I did, and I didn’t. Aurora told me months ago that she wanted to do that, but she didn’t say anything after. I assumed. Fine, I hoped she only said it to annoy me and get a reaction out of me because that seems to be her favorite thing to do right now but I didn’t think she would really do it.

"Aiden?" Daniel tilted his head. I coughed, put my hands under the table, and cracked my knuckles.

“I knew,” I lied.

“Why didn’t you stop it?”

"Well that's
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