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Chapters
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
CHAPTER 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26 — A Cage Draped in Gold

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Chapter 21
— Beneath the Surface
Rain began to fall just past midnight.
Not a soft drizzle, but a relentless downpour that lashed the city in sheets, soaking streets, blurring windows, muting the noise of traffic into a distant hush. Vedika stood on the orphanage’s veranda, arms wrapped tightly aro...