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Chapter 122: Glass and Ashes

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The cold returned early that year.

October wasn’t yet over, but a layer of frost had already crept across the Vermont fields, turning blades of grass to brittle needles and drawing pale ghosts on the cabin’s windows. Sophia stood barefoot on the hardwood floor, mug i
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