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Chapter 32

Author: Eva Green O.
last update publish date: 2025-10-14 06:44:00

Luke’s POV

The text kept replaying in my head.

Tell her the next one’s mine.

It didn’t matter how many times I read it—three words, eight letters of threat—and I could hear Quentin saying them. Calm, certain, the way he used to announce a business merger.

I ought to have been frank with Thora. I just had a feeling that maybe it was a mind game, a bluff. The other part knew better.

I was sitting in my car, outside my office, with my hands around my steering wheel, the engine off. The wind-glass
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