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Chapter 158 - Breaking Point

Author: Ms.O The Writer
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-01 17:28:57

They said the first cut never hurt, that the second, third, and fourth did the real damage. Luna had learned otherwise. The first cut had split her open and the rest had been attempts to finish what had started.

She woke to the sound of her phone buzzing like a persistent insect on the nightstand. For a moment she thought it was a dream, the press, the leaks, the note, and then inertia gave way to dread. She reached across the tangle of sheets and thumbed the screen awake.

Her manager. A dozen unread texts. A voicemail flagged urgent. She listened to one, then another: studio calls, radio bookings, producers asking for statements, and then a text that made the blood in her veins go cold: Therapy notes leaked. Full transcript circulating. Call me now.

The apartment blurred. The city below moved on in its indifferent, glittering orbit while a small, private panic rose in her chest. Therapy notes. Private things. Things she had said to someone in a room she trusted to help her hold the b
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