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CHAPTER 116

Author: Olivia GW
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-05 23:38:49

Celeste’s POV

I stood frozen, unable to breathe as Viv Lancaster stumbled toward the doorway like gravity had forgotten her. Her eyes stayed locked on the lifeless form beneath the sheet—wild, frantic, brimming with disbelief.

“She has no mole behind her ear,” Viv gasped, her hands flying to her mouth. “Genevieve had one, small and round—right here.” She motioned behind her own left ear with trembling fingers. “And the scar on her thigh… it’s gone. Gone.”

I couldn’t look away from her.

The warden stepped forward. “Mrs. Lancaster… With all due respect, you said she wasn’t your biological daughter. If that’s true—how can you be so sure about these marks?”

Viv turned to him slowly, her face streaked with tears. “Because when we first reunited with her, I had checked all of these. How I wish she was really my daughter!”

Her voice cracked on the last word. She shook her head in disbelief while sobbing.

“I loved her like she was mine,” she whispered. “Even when I didn’t understand her. Ev
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