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Chapter 86 Family Intervention 

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POV: Ava

The front door of my family home didn't just open. It felt like a portal back to a life I was trying to outrun. The smell of lemon polish and over-steeped Earl Grey hit me. It was the scent of expectations.

"Ava, you're late," my mother said. She didn't look up from the table. She was busy aligning silver spoons with a ruler.

"The bus was stuck in traffic," I lied.

The truth was different. I spent twenty minutes in the campus parking lot staring at a text from Kai. He wanted to meet by
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