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Chapter 91

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JULIA

The car ride felt different today.

Not heavy.

Not suffocating.

Not something I had to endure with my hands clenched tight in my lap.

For the first time in a long while, I leaned back against the soft leather seat and watched the city pass by through the tinted window, sunlight flickering across the glass like it was playing with me. The Lucchesi emblem glinted faintly on the door, a quiet reminder of where I was headed back to later, but right now, my heart was somewhere else.

Home.

Well—
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