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Chapter 22 : Ordinary Things

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There were no gunshots.

No encrypted files.

No anonymous phone calls.

No traitors to chase.

For the first time in weeks...

Blackridge offered them something almost unfamiliar.

An ordinary Saturday morning.

Sunlight streamed through the enormous windows of the Devereaux Estate, replacing the endless rain that had dominated the previous days.

The gardens sparkled beneath the morning dew.

Somewhere outside, the gardeners laughed over something neither Sera nor Lucien could hear.

The mans
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