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Chapter 56

Author: Marva
last update publish date: 2026-05-19 05:08:54

The Price of a Queen

​POV: Alpha Kaelen Blackwood

​The heavy oak walls of my private study felt like the bars of a cage shrinking rapidly around me.

​I swept my good arm across the massive mahogany desk, sending ancient leather-bound law books, inkwells, and maps crashing violently to the stone floor. The glass shattered, the black ink pooling like dark blood across the rugs.

​"There has to be a loophole!" I roared, gripping the edge of the ruined desk as I gasped for air. "There is always a l
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