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Chapter 21

Author: Crystal L
last update publish date: 2026-03-31 22:42:58

Mia:

My heart didn’t just race. It stopped.

Mama.

The word echoed in my head like a gunshot, loud and impossible to ignore. I felt it in my chest, in my throat, in the way my fingers suddenly went numb around the cone I was holding. And if I was about to drop the cone before, I knew very well that it was harder for me to hold it now…

No.

No, no, no… not here, not in front of him, not like this.

“Mama?” Rosalyn tugged on my hand again, her voice small but impatient this time. “My ice cream is go
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