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Chapter 101: Negotiation Begins - 3
Cassian held her gaze without wavering, and Cixi, though half-bewildered, could do nothing but return it. Silence spread between them, but his last words did not recede with it. They became even clearer.
Then he spoke once more, and this time there was no trace of jest in him at all. "Even before you were born, you were mine...." The heat that had already begun to climb in her sharpened at once.
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