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Chapter Twenty-Seven – Whispers of Betrayal

Her approach was deliberate, each step measured like she owned not just the room, but the air in it. The crowd parted for her without a word, as though instinctively obeying a command none of them had heard. And me? I couldn’t look away. My chest tightened because I knew her.

Not by name, not by an...