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Chapter Eighty Three

作者: Richiegirl
last update publish date: 2026-06-12 15:10:00

Kia

The safe house was Bren's.

She hadn't asked whose it was until the second day.

"Mine," Bren had said, with the attitude of a man who did not elaborate unless elaboration served a purpose.

"You prepared it," she asked.

"Yes," he said.

"Before we left Endra," she said.

"Before we left the mountain estate," he said.

She had looked at him then, at this quiet, precise man who had spent eleven years in the margins of Xander's life, and understood that Bren's version of loyalty was the kind that
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