Chapter 367

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The king sighed. “I need to finish preparing.” His tone was final, dismissing us. But there was a new weight in his gaze–a disturbance that hadn’t been there before.

As we left his office, I couldn’t shake the feeling that we had just set something in motion.

Alexander pulled me down a side hallway suddenly and 1 looked at him in confusion.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

Alexander leaned in and kissed me swiftly, leaving me breathless for a moment.

“What?” I repeated.

“Whatever happens after this press conference,” he said firmly. “I want you to know how incredible you are. You’re handling this situation incredibly well.”

I shook my head at him, but his words warmed my heart. I was doing my best to seem confident, but it was surface level.

Inside, I felt like the world was completely off balance and I could lose my composure at the slightest unexpected

turn.

I had hardly slept for days and my emotions were strung tightly.

could respond, the sound of voices echoing down the hall reached

slipping seamlessly into his composed, unreadable expression. I straightened my shoulders, doing my best to mirror his confidence.

“Ready?” he asked.

even

nodded anyway. “Let’s go.”

we walked toward whatever came

conference was chaos.

lights of the cameras making everything feel

the arrests, laying out the severity of the crimes. The words “death penalty” lingered in the air, heavier than the silence that

crowd erupted

was Amanda working alone?”

she was aided,” he said.

evidence do you have against David?”

financial records,

members of

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of at this time,” he replied.

Archer is guilty?”

to come on the

but his presence

wasn’t as

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of everything–we had spent so long chasing this, fighting for justice, that I hadn’t really thought

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