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Chapter 68

Author: Aena Zahid
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It was almost dawn. Many hours had passed since Dom and Iris discovered the dead body in their bedroom.

All the wedding festivities were over in an instant. The cheerful mood was gone. Of course, the details of the incident were known to only a selected few. Unstable Liliana was left out of the loop so she won't cause any damage and would be protected herself from the knowledge as well.

Dom was back in full Alpha mode and the meeting room had been occupied by various members of the dragon family all the time.

One thing was clear, Waai was behind all of this. And clearly, there was a connection between the fire at the wedding cake shop and this corpse. The worst part wasn't that Waai still had minions on the island to cause mischief, it was that his minions had infiltrated the mansion and even reached Dom's bedroom.

What was stopping them from slipping in again for something worse than placing a burnt corpse?

It was obvious, there was still a mole in the dragon family. Even after G
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