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Chapter 15: The Mother of All Secrets
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2026-06-09 21:30:21Time stopped.
Every breath in the room seemed to freeze in place. Every heartbeat hammered loud and hard in my ears. I stared at the woman standing in the opening of the wall. The woman I had been told was broken. Damaged. Trapped inside her own mind. The woman I had visited a hundred times sitting silent and still staring at nothing.
She stood tall. Her posture perfect and regal. Her hair neat and soft falling over her shoulders. She wore a long flowing white dress that made he
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