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Chapter 14 - Pockets Of Flowers

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We all stared down at the last thing the maggot had written before she'd been dragged by our gammas into the dungeons.

Check her room for purple flowers.

"Interesting," Karn purred in my mind, his voice thick with the same avarice that defined us both. "She's offering us a prize. The question is whether it's real or bait."

I wanted to see for myself. Needed to. Greed wasn't just my sin—it was woven into every thought, every impulse. I collected secrets the way dragons hoarded gold, and Aurora's mystery had been gnawing at me since the incident. Every plea, every silent stare, every action that contradicted her human nature. And now she was handing us a thread to pull. I'd be damned if I did not pull it.

She wanted us to search Sonya's quarters. As if we'd find evidence that our victim had poisoned herself. It was absurd. But absurd things had value when everyone else dismissed them.

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