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Chapter 22
Author: Charisma
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Aboveground, the estate's guards had abandoned their posts entirely, running for vehicles that peeled out through the front gate in a scramble that had nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with fear. He caught two of them just short of the tree line — the same guards who'd sworn undying loyalty to Black Lotus's chain of command an hour earlier now looking at him with something closer to relief than hostility, as though whatever was building beneath the estate frightened them conside
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