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Chapter Nine: She Chose Me

Author: Aveline Kryss
last update publish date: 2026-06-24 21:52:58

I barely slept that night, replaying four words over and over until they stopped making sense. Tomorrow, meet my grandmother. Signing the contract hadn’t made my hands shake like this. Contracts were business. Family was something else entirely, something that could still find a way to hurt me even now.

Somewhere around dawn I realized what actually frightened me. I wanted her to like me. That realization unsettled me more than anything Ethan had said all week.

Damien arrived himself the next m
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Susan Samuel
Granny liked her and gave her her mother's recipe book
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Diane Lind
I wonder what that meant? I’m sure we are going to find out.
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