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2025-03-25 15:00:00Once a Fool, Now a Queen
Aurora Sinclair’s POV****Damian’s Last Card*I knew it. Damian wouldn’t go down without dragging me through the mud first.The moment I saw Celeste’s text—Check the headlines. He made his move.—I knew exactly what was waiting for me. And yet, when I opened the article, a cold rage settled in my chest.“AURORA SINCLAIR: THE WOMAN WHO BUILT HER POWER ON LIES?”Beneath the headline was a carefully curated selection of my past—my relationships, my business dealings, every decision I had made that could be twisted into something sinister. There was a blurry photo of me at twenty-three, walking out of a man’s penthouse in the early morning light. Another of me at a gala, laughing with a powerful investor who later faced fraud allegations. A bank statement that implied I had been “paid off” for my silence in an old scandal.It was a web of half-truths, calculated to make me look like a manipulative soc
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