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Chapter 66 : Pressure Points
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2026-05-18 15:45:00Emma barely slept.
Not because of work. Not because of Whitmore. Because Laura Reed had walked into her house last night wearing a diamond engagement ring and enough audacity to start a war in someone else’s living room. And somehow Emma still made it to Blackwoods before eight in the morning. The lobby shifted the second she entered. Not dramatically. Subtly. Assistants who once gave her
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