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Chapter Fifty-Two: Bowen In The Doorway
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2026-06-28 03:35:46
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Selene’s POV“Sit down,” I say. “Before Edna finds out you are vertical.”Bowen looks at me with the expression he reserves for when I say something he agrees with but does not want to agree with, and then he comes into the kitchen and sits in the chair Mara pulls out for him with the speed of someone who has been waiting for an excuse to do something useful.Reina puts tea in front of him without being asked.He looks around the table. At Edrin, whom he does not recognise. At Talia, whom he does not recognise. At Caden, who he did not expect to still be here. At Lucian against the wall. At me, standing at the head of the table with my hands flat on the surface.“You have been busy,” he says.“It has been a full morning,” I agree.I tell him. Quickly and without embellishment, the way the week has trained me to deliver information, because every hour we spend catching people up is an hour Rael’s lawyers are using for something else. Edrin alive, the incapacitation filing, the forty-ei
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