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Chapter 88: Maple Is Coming Home
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2026-10-03 22:00:59Three days had passed since Maple’s interview.
On Friday afternoon, Elliot was sitting in the university library, working through an assignment.
The shelter had told him they would contact him within a few days. That didn’t mean he planned to stare at his phone through every class, and for the past two days, he had managed to go about his life more or less normally.
But when the phone sitting at the edge of his desk vibrated, all of that disappeared.
Elliot saw the
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