Chapter 17: Velvet and Steel
The sallow yellow light fell across the faded floral wallpaper, its cracks like broken seams on an old cloth—the battlefield of long-gone parties. Fashion magazines leaned askew on a shelf, a scratched, dim photo frame tilted nearby. Cigarette smoke curled and dissolved into the tired perfume linger...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Cruel Diagnosis
2. Chapter 2: The Weight of Silence
3. Chapter 3: Fragments of Memory
4. Chapter 4: The Stranger I Once Loved
5. Chapter 5: The Ring I Tried to Cast Away
6. Chapter 6: Through the Crack in the Morning Light
7. Chapter 7: The echoing night
8. Chapter 8: Between Dread and Hope
9. Chapter 9: A Blade Through the Quiet
10. Chapter 10: The Road to the Locked Door
11. Chapter 11: Under Flickering Lights
12. Chapter 12: Before He Sees Me
13. Chapter 13: Paris in Early Winter
14. Chapter 14: Veil of Fog over Paris
15. Chapter 15: Threads of Resolve
16. Chapter 16: Curtains and Needles
17. Chapter 17: Velvet and Steel
18. Chapter 18: Eyes on Kael
19. Chapter 19: The Return of Elysa Dawson
20. Chapter 20: The Morning of Return
21. Chapter 21: The First Step
22. Chapter 22: The Clean Empire
23. Chapter 23: Room 202
24. Chapter 24: A Morning Full of Surprises
25. Chapter 25: Shadows in the Inbox
26. Chapter 26: Inside the Company
27. Chapter 27. When the Shadows Break
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