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Part 46: The Broken Soul

Author: Mus Story
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-13 22:35:51

Avery leaned forward in her chair. The image of the kind, artistic boy Clara had painted felt so real, so vivid. It was a stark and painful contrast to the cold, oppressive world of the Reed family she knew. “What do you mean, Clara?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. “What happened when he tried to bring his light into the open?”

Clara took a shaky sip of water from a glass on the table beside her. Her eyes held the weary look of someone who had replayed these memories a thousand times in the dead of night.

“Rose Reed,” Clara began, her voice low and filled with a quiet venom, “believed that anything she could not control, she had to destroy. And Julian’s soul was something she could never truly own.” She looked at Avery. “So, she decided to break it. Not all at once. But piece by piece. Chip by chip. She started where it would hurt the most, in front of his father.”

The lamplit room dissolved once more, pulling them back into the chilling opulence of the Reed Corp boardroom.

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