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Chapter 13: Ownership

Author: Lola Rae
last update publish date: 2026-04-20 17:14:38

Nathaniel’s Pov

I sat in the empty apartment across from Evangeline's building and watched her bedroom window and told myself this was about security and not obsession, but that was a lie. I had never been good at lying to myself.

The building had cost me forty two million dollars and I had paid cash through a shell company that could not be traced back to me and t

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