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CHAPTER 118

Penulis: Olivia GW
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-07 15:59:53

Celeste’s POV

The night outside was cold, the kind of cold that bit through the sleeves and crawled beneath your skin. I could see Theo’s waiting car was under the streetlamps.

We were only steps away from leaving it all behind—the morgue, the lies, the body that may or may not have belonged to Genevieve—when the echo of approaching footsteps stopped us.

I turned instinctively.

Standing at the end of the corridor, under a flickering hallway light, were the Lancasters.

I didn’t know what to say. My mouth opened, then closed again.

Shouldn’t I be relieved to find my biological parents, the family that I’d always dreamed of being reunited with? Shouldn’t this be a full-circle moment—the kind you only see in stories?

But all I felt was the jagged edge of unfinished things.

“Celeste…” Nathaniel said carefully.

Viv took a step forward. “Wait.”

I tensed.

“I… I know this isn’t what you wanted,” I said finally. “I know this is messy. I’m sorry for what you lost. And I—I don’t know how to be an
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