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CHAPTER 109

Author: ZELIA
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-07-02 07:56:58

THE WILL NO ONE KNEW ABOUT

The family lawyer is calling Dominic on a Thursday afternoon and his voice carries a significance that makes Dominic understand immediately that this is about something important and something that's been kept private and something that only now is being revealed and the lawyer is asking him to come to the office to review a personal will that his father left and that's been locked in a safe deposit box waiting for the right moment to be discovered. He's going to the
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