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Chapter 42

Author: Marysol James
last update publish date: 2026-06-07 22:13:15

THOMAS

By the time I turn into the drive, it’s fully dark.

Rain glistens across the stone sweep before Ashcroft Manor, turning the grounds silver beneath the exterior lights, and for a moment I remain seated behind the wheel while the engine settles into silence around me

The day has been long in the way only expensive days can be long: meetings, negotiations, lawyers charging extraordinary amounts of money to explain things I already know. Ordinarily I’d spend the journey home preparing for to
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