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Chapter 8

Auteur: Joyce Elle
last update Date de publication: 2026-06-09 17:28:25

The drive home from the cemetery was unusually quiet.

Mia sat beside the window, watching the city lights blur past.

Chairman Lu's burial was over.

The old man who had changed her life was gone forever.

Yet instead of feeling relief, she felt lost.

More lost than ever.

Across from her sat Jason.

His attention remained fixed on the documents resting on his lap.

Since leaving the cemetery, he hadn't spoken a single word.

Not that she expected him to.

The man seemed to have built walls around hims
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