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Chapter fifty two: Who Can Still Be Trusted

Author: V. Omoruyi
last update publish date: 2026-09-29 04:13:11

LADY AQUINE

"Laron." I pulled my shawl tighter around my shoulders and let my voice come out tired, worn thin the way it actually was after everything I'd just learned. "You should be asleep at this hour."

"So should you, by rights." He stepped into the room wrapped in a dark robe, his silver hair combed neatly even now, in the deepest part of the night. His eyes moved slowly across my desk. Across the candle burning low. Across the pile of papers I'd heaped together in such a hurry. "You're wo
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