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As I walked toward the door, I could feel Victoria's cold gaze burning into my back.

I kept my Roland Warner's dying words giving me strength.

head high,

"I'll take Victoria and Emma to see the new roses in the garden," Isabelle offered, clearly trying to defuse the

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Chapter 31 Kitchen Cent

tension.

Ethan nodded, rising from his chair. "I have business to attend to anyway."

In the kitchen, I found myself alone. All other servants had been dismissed- Eleanor's way of ensuring i understood my position in the pack hierarchy.

I sighed, tying an apron around my waist. The venison for tonight's main course sat waiting on the cutting

board.

As I began chopping, my mind wandered back to Roland Warner's revelation. Victoria had deliberately

Intercepted Lily's kidney donor, ensuring my daughter's death while pretending innocence.

me like acid. If I revealed what I knew now, who

was dead.

imagining it was Victoria beneath my knife. Each cut was precise,

murder the

Ethan's voice. I hadn't heard him enter the kitchen, a testament to how lost Td been

my vengeful thoughts.

space. The heat from his body radiated against my

stepped

playing?" he asked, his

acknowledge how his proximity affected

traitorously. Despite everything, my body still responded to

closed over mine, stilling the knife. "That little display in the sitting room. Touching me

front of everyone."

the barely contained anger in his grip, the tension in his body. Good. Let him feel

anything.

bodies inches apart. His amber eyes

confusion, desire.

outside the

when to interrupt, when to pull Ethan back

curved my lips. "You should go. Your

tightened. "Don't start this

the

Emma-they're who you want. Not me.

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