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chapter 19

作者: Cynthia Jane
last update 公開日: 2026-04-17 01:37:42

Chapter 19: The Eye of the Storm

​POV: Elias

​The air outside the Montgomery estate was freezing, or maybe that was just the blood cooling on my skin. Jax had tossed me out like a bag of trash, and the gates had hissed shut behind me with a finality that should have felt like a death sentence.

​I stood in the dirt, my lungs burning, watching his truck roar off into the distance. He thought he’d won. He thought the "Ice Queen" had finally put me back in the gutter.

​I looked up at the security c
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