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Chapters
Chapter 1. For Better Or Worse
Chapter 2. The Betrothed Lives
Chapter 3. “Trapping the Enemy
Chapter 4. “The Stranger Who Knew My Name
Chapter 5. The Bargain Sealed
Chapter 6. Chains Of The Future
Chapter 7. Ghost from the Past
Chapter 8. Dangerous Claim
Chapter 9. The Wedding
Chapter 10. A House of Shadows
Chapter 11. Whispers at Midnight
Chapter 12. The First Break
Chapter 13. Fire and Ice
Chapter 14. A Sister’s Poison
Chapter 15. Web of Deceit
Chapter 16. The Illness
Chapter 17. The Midnight Visit
Chapter 18. A Man’s Rage
Chapter 19. The Contract’s Weight
Chapter 20. A shattered Choice
Chapter 21. Rivalries
Chapter 22. The Mother’s Secrets
Chapter 23. A Crack in the Ice
Chapter 24. Shadows Return
Chapter 25. A Choice Of Loyalty
Chapter 26: The Fragile Alliance
Chapter 27. Framed
Chapter 28. Truth Unveiled
Chapter 29. Battle Lines
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Chapter 23. A Crack in the Ice
The room was calm after Raymond's voice broke.
I had never seen him before. Not Raymond, who barks the orders, who signed the papers without seeing them, who treated people as they had numbers on a page. This man, who is standing in front of me, looked undone, holding the diary of his dead mother. ...