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CHAPTER 26 PART 1

Author: Universeleap
last update publish date: 2026-09-10 23:07:55

Jia's POV

I was suffocating inside that mansion. Every corner had Liam's suspicious eyes. Every hallway had Mia's sharp smile waiting to cut me. The walls were closing in tighter every single day and I needed air. Real air. The kind that came from doing something that had absolutely nothing to do with any Collins brother.

So I threw myself into my work like my life depended on it. Because honestly, it did.

St. Victoria's was running a major collaborative cardiac research project with three hosp
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