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... intensity of a man whose entire future hung in the balance.

After Grayson spoke, silence settled over them—not the gentle kind, but the kind that pulled tight and held its breath, steeped in the echoes of what had been revealed and the threat of what had yet to break free.

Mailah’s grip on the black envelopes faltered, their surface devouring the day’s last golden glow until nothing but shadow remained.

The paper felt wrong beneath her fingertips—not quite hot, not quite ...

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