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Chapter 38
Author: SK Writes
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The shock of Rafa’s apology hadn’t fully settled before the room began buzzing again—softly at first, then growing louder as people tried to drag themselves back into some familiar version of reality. But Beverly was the first to snap out of the stunned silence.

Her fingers twisted together nervously, but her voice suddenly rose with a kind of desperate certainty.

“There—there must be another explanation,” she announced, as if trying to overwrite the last ten minutes of existence. “Rafa wouldn’t bow to us over a room mistake. Someone must have told him something. Maybe he heard about Mia’s connection with Marina.”

Clara blinked, startled.

“Marina?”

“Yes,” Beverly said, seizing onto the thought like a lifeline. “This whole thing clearly has to do with Marina respecting Mia. That’s all. Nothing else makes sense.”

She nodded emphatically, as if she were trying to convince herself more than anyone else.

“It’s obvious,” she continued. “Powerful people like Rafa would want good relations wi
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