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Chapter 150

Author: Anney GW
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FLORENCE’S POV

The noise had finally quieted.

No more police sirens. No more lawyers barging into the house. No more press standing outside with cameras in my face. No more Mason, Raiden, Daniel, Melissa, or the ghosts of all their choices haunting my every waking second.

I needed to leave the city before it swallowed me whole.

So I did what any sensible person would do when on the verge of emotional collapse: I booked a last-minute countryside vacation home for the weekend and dragged Annalise with me.

***

“This place is gorgeous,” Annalise said, stepping out of the car and stretching like a cat. “There are actual chickens. You’ve outdone yourself.”

The air was fresh, thick with wildflowers and something earthy.

The kind of smell you didn’t realize you missed until you breathed it in again. Rolling green fields surrounded the little cottage, and in the distance, a small group of cows wandered lazily.

I nodded, exhaling as I closed the car door behind me. “I don’t want to talk about
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