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Chapter 233

Penulis: Chronos
"Chris, I thought I'd never see you again…"

Chris's brow knotted tightly, and the hand gripping his phone strained so hard that the veins on its back bulged.

He couldn't believe Joan could be so cruel, but the surveillance didn't lie.

And Joan had asked for Adriana's door number at Rosewood Avenue; he had given it to her himself.

The thought that he had nearly handed Adriana over to Joshua with his own hands made his anger coil like a steel spring in his chest, choking him. His limbs ached a
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