Chapter 283
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At that moment, Serena nodded her head, and the satisfaction on her face was the kind that settles deep, the satisfaction of a woman who had pushed and pushed and finally gotten what she came for.

"Good," she said, and the word came out rich and warm, like something she had been waiting to say for the entirety of this conversation. "Very, very good." She looked at him with eyes that carried just a trace of lingering disbelief, the kind that softens once the crisis has passed but does not entire
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