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chapter 17: Amelia's secret

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A week passed since the letter arrived from Amelia, and yet Aria still felt the tremble in her bones. Fear lingered under her skin like a second heartbeat. Every morning she would wake up hoping the entire thing had been a cruel joke, but the envelope with Amelia's name remained real—tucked away in the bottom drawer of her desk at the flower shop.

On the seventh day, her phone buzzed.

AMELIA: In an hour meet me at an old white building just past the outskirts of town. Come alone.

Aria’s heart dropped. Her hands shook as she closed the shop early, giving the staff a flimsy excuse about having a migraine. She didn’t want anyone asking questions. Not yet.

She stepped into a cab, directions clenched in her mind like a lifeline. What she didn’t know was that someone followed her—a tall figure in plain clothes, discreet and silent. Damian's bodyguard, Mikhail had seen her leave and, sensing something off, trailed her from a distance. When the cab veered out of town, he immediately called D
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