Chapter 21: The Obedient MistressIvanka’s hands trembled as she tightened her grip on the phone. Her fingers had turned cold, as if the moment she loosened them even slightly, the device would slip from her grasp and fall onto the icy wooden floor beneath her feet. She forced herself to inhale deeply, trying to suppress the suffocating sensation of an invisible hand squeezing her chest.“I’m sorry… who are you?” Ivanka asked. Yet in her heart, the answer already burned as clearly as an oil lamp flickering in the dark.On the other end of the line, a soft chuckle rose. It was cold and carried the inborn arrogance of a Salvaria.“Aunt Ivanka,” the young woman’s gentle voice chimed, “you truly don’t recognize my voice?”Ivanka’s entire body stiffened.This voice… not even after all these years had she ever forgotten it, nor could she ever hope to.A name that, upon hearing alone, could make anyone in Union State’s upper circles break into a cold sweat.“…Mary?” Ivanka whispered.“Oh, yo
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