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Chapter 19: The Switched Glass
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2026-03-20 18:28:20Renaud still didn’t tell me the name.
He said it once…someone I need to see will be there…and then he shut the door on the rest of the sentence like it was a room I wasn’t allowed to enter.
He left me standing in the hallway, arms folded, trying not to look like a woman who’d been turned into a prop in her own life.
Gabriel cleared his throat beside me. “We’ll start now.”
“Start what?” I asked,
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