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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.

If I revealed what I

was dead.

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

to murder the venison,

hadn't heard him enter the

my vengeful thoughts.

filling the space. The heat from his

stepped

he asked, his

refusing to acknowledge how his proximity affected me. “I

raced traitorously. Despite everything, my body

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

front of everyone."

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

anything.

to face him, our bodies inches apart. His amber

confusion, desire.

from outside the kitchen. "Victoria

course she was. Victoria always knew when to interrupt,

smile that curved my lips. "You should go. Your real

tightened. "Don't

setting down the knife. "You've

who you want. Not me.

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