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Chapter 225

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The house was quiet.

Victor had fallen asleep early after a long day of chasing butterflies in the garden, and Aaron was downstairs cleaning up their dinner dishes—his new nightly ritual, complete with loud jazz humming from the speaker and the occasional clatter of dropped cutlery.

But Marie sat upstairs in the study, bathed in the soft golden light of the reading lamp.

For months, she had ignored the journal on her desk. Leather-bound. Unwritten. Untouched.

Until now.

Tonight, she opened it.

Not because someone asked her to.

Not because the media hounded her for an interview or because the legal teams needed a written statement for posterity.

She opened it because she needed to remember, not to stay in the pain, but to honour it. To mark the distance she had travelled. To give her survival a shape, a voice.

She uncapped the pen slowly, almost ceremonially.

And then she wrote:

This story began not with love, but with silence.

The silence of a family hiding truths. The silence of a
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