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Chapter 38 - A Prison of Luxury

Author: Viola David
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-27 03:59:05

Lylah stood in the doorway of her room, watching the corridor beyond. She had been in the mansion for over three months, but each day she felt like a stranger in it. The walls were bland and intimidating, and the stolid men that stood guard around the perimeter round the clock did nothing to cheer up the atmosphere.

Lylah had tried to make small talk with them a few times before, but their uninviting glares and unwelcome grunts had discouraged her, and these days she would content herself with watching them, waiting to see if anything would come up to create just the slightest distraction so that she could find a way to slip through the gates, but no such mistake ever occurred.

Lylah sighed, her hand instinctively going to her belly. The pregnancy had reached its fourth month, and the changes in her body were becoming more pronounced. Justine had been overjoyed when he learnt that she was pregnant, moreso when the private doctor he hired for her gave them the news that she was carryi
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