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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Author: Rosa Kane
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ESSENCE

I felt as though I had stepped into a whole new world. One moment I was dodging insults and nursing bruises, the next I was married to Lucian Knight and standing in his mansion like I belonged. Everything still felt surreal.

Yes, I had signed the marriage documents. Yes, I had moved into his luxurious home. But it hadn’t quite sunk in yet. Was this real life, or a dream I’d soon wake up from? The maids, the respectful glances, the luxury dripping from every wall and corner—it didn’t seem like something someone like me deserved. At least not according to everything I’d been told over the years.

Still, there was something else that felt even more unusual than the grandeur. Lucian. His kindness. His attentiveness. No one had ever worried about whether I’d eaten, not even on days when I hadn’t eaten at all. Yet Lucian, within the short span of time we had spent together, had done so twice.

And the second time…he didn’t just ask. He had already driven halfway home before he made a
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