The Thorne mansion didn’t feel like a place that had been liberated; it felt like a body after the soul had been removed, standing intact only because collapse hadn’t yet decided how to happen. Morning light poured through the vast glass windows of the main hall, touching marble floors that once reflected power, wealth, and intimidation—but now mirrored only emptiness, as if the building itself no longer knew its role in the world. The silence inside was no longer one of fear or punishment, but something more unsettling: the silence of conclusion, where everything that once demanded attention had already been taken away.Seraphina stood near the window, her hands resting lightly against the cold glass as she gazed out at the gardens once meticulously maintained to reflect perfection. Now, after the arrests, the removal of the Thorne family, and the dismantling of their control, the gardens appeared physically unchanged but emotionally foreign, like scenery that no longer belo
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