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Chapter Twenty-Two: Uninvited

Author: SilverInk
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-03 08:01:44

=Damien's POV=

My phone rang just after I signed off the last call.

Yaya Loring.

I stepped out of the conference room, already feeling the tension snake through my shoulders. “Hello, Yaya?”

[Sir Damien... pasensya na, pero kailangan ko po kayong tawagan kaagad.]

I straightened. “What’s going on?”

[May dumating po kanina. Si Sir Julian.]

My jaw tightened.

[Hindi ko po siya pinapasok agad. Sabi ko, bahay ito ng mga Vale. Pero sinabi ni Ma’am Seraphina… na may karapatan siyang papasukin, kasi future Vale siya.]

Future Vale.

There was a pull in my chest at the sound of those words. A quiet kind of pride. But it wasn’t enough to drown out the fire building in my gut.

“What did he want?”

[Hindi ko po alam, sir. Inutusan po kasi kami ni Ma'am Seraphina na huwag silang iistor

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