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Chapter Thirty-Nine: Mara Velde

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last update Date de publication: 2026-04-29 21:33:21

Damien made the call on Wednesday.

She hadn't asked him to report back. She'd told him what was needed: one final ordinary conversation, brief, nothing new given, and left the rest to him. He was not a person who required supervision on things he'd decided to do. That was, she had come to understand, one of the most significant things about Damien Voss: once he'd accepted the cost of something, he paid it without requiring someone else to manage the payment. The lightness was not the absence of
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