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Chapter 53

Author: Nivi Rosa
last update publish date: 2025-10-29 19:30:39

Serena had forgotten what it felt like to wake up to a day that wasn’t scheduled down to the last minute.

The shoot had wrapped early. Miraculously.

For the first time in weeks, she didn’t have an interview, a meeting, a press call, or Lucian waiting at her door with some maddening comment designed to set her off.

What she had, instead, was Eliora — sprawled across the couch in leggings and one of Serena’s old oversized sweatshirt
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