Chapter 5 · free to read
For three years she had rehearsed the reunion. She had never once rehearsed her mother waking up afraid.
She had come back to take an empire. She was only now learning the empire had never legally existed.
She had spent three years believing she was an outsider clawing into someone else's dynasty. The truth was worse. She had been clawing her way back into her own.
The recording had reached the prosecutors. And someone with more power than prosecutors had reached them right back.
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