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Chapter 27: Not Innocent
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2026-04-27 17:16:25Evangeline's Pov
Marcus called me at six in the morning and told me to meet him at a diner in Brooklyn that I had never been to and when I got there forty minutes later he looked like he had not slept in two days. "You look terrible," I said as I slid into the booth across from him. "That is because I have been up all night going through files and what I found is going to change everything." He pushed a folder across the tabl
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