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    “Let’s go see for ourselves.”


    Joelle stormed into the backyard, threw open Katie’s door, and found the woman reclining on the bed, sipping from a bowl of medicine. Without hesitation, Joelle lunged forward and pped the bowl from Katie’s hands. To a sick woman, that was no different from snatching away her lifeline.


    “I told you—if you’ve got a score to settle,e at me! Leave the kids out of this!”


    Katie wiped her mouth. “What? It arrived so soon?”


    Joelle’s breath hitched. That reaction alone confirmed her guilt.


    A furious tremor seized Joelle’s fingers as she grabbed Katie by the cor. The frailty of the woman beneath her grip was almost shocking.


    “You’re in such a rush. I have something even better to show you!” Reaching beneath her pillow, Katie pulled out a stack of photographs. Joelle took them without thinking, flipping through each image in stiff silence. Then, color drained from her face.


    The photos captured Aurora and Dunn, side by side, entering and leaving a residential area together.


    The angles. The rity. They were too natural to be staged, too precise to be edited.


    Aurora walked in just then, and as their gazes met, Joelle’s hands trembled around the photographs.


    Her proud, brilliant daughter.


    Joelle didn’t want to me her, but a chilling thought gripped her heart—if these images spread, Aurora’s reputation would be in ruins.


    “Katie, who else have you shown these to?”


    Katie’s lips cracked into something between a grin and a grimace, red-stained and taunting. “Oh, I made sure to send a copy to the Finch family. Since your families are about to be bound together, I thought they should know!”


    Joelle’s fingers curled into fists, her entire body trembling with fury. “Did you really think I wouldn’t dare to make you pay for this?”


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    Katie let out a breathlessugh. “I’m already as good as dead. What can you possibly do to me?”


    With that, a p came down, sharp and merciless. Katie reeled back, copsing onto the floor.


    Joelle wasn’t finished. She moved to strike again, but before she could, Rnd lunged forward and caught her around the waist, restraining her.


    The scattered photographs fluttered down, somending at Aurora’s feet.


    Aurora’s breath hitched. She stared at the images, then slowly lifted her gaze toward Adrian, fear tightening around her ribs like a vice.


    Adrian’s expression was unreadable. For a moment, he simply stood there. Then, wordlessly, he crouched down and gathered the photos, stacking them neatly before tucking them away.


    These pictures—if they got out—would destroy Aurora’s reputation.


    He knew it. Joelle knew it.


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