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Chapter 51

Penulis: K.A
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Celine

I noticed something I didn't expect.

It came as a small, wrong thread, a sound pulled at the edge of me and everything snapped into sharper focus. A footstep down the hall, the change of a guard’s weight, the rustle of parchment in the scribe’s room, all of it landed inside my chest like someone had turned up the volume and I had become the speaker. My pulse jumped. Heat climbed up my arm, hard and fast, from the palm to the shoulder, and the world tightened around every shape and edge.

I froze. There was no choice. The tile under my bare feet was cold, and I counted the squares until my breath measured out slow enough not to betray me. One, two, three. Keep it small. Keep it ordinary.

Jerome’s boots sounded before I saw him. He opened the door like he had a right, and maybe he did. He did not bother with the ceremony. The half-smile he wore for the court wasn’t there. His face was a different kind of careful, softer at the mouth, sharper at the eyes. He stepped straight toward
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