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Chapter 91 - Chapter 91: Embarrassment 

The patch on his arm blinked a steady purple.

"Stable," Nadia said, glancing up from her tablet like she was announcing a royal decree.

Chris, slouched sideways on the couch with a cushion over his face, groaned. "Define stable."

"Not having a cardiac event," she said dryly. "You should be grateful."

"I was almost murdered by embarrassment this morning," he muttered into the pillow. "That should count."

Across the room, Rowan stood near the door in his immaculate black uniform, every button and every fold perfectly in place and dark red hair slicked back. The man radiated quiet military calm, the kind that made other people sit straighter without realizing it. Chris resented that about him. Mostly because it worked.

"I'm assuming," Rowan said evenly, "that 'embarrassment' refers to whatever happened before His Majesty's departure?"

Chris lowered the pillow just enough to glare at him. "You don't want to know."

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