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Part 74

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His Pov:

And I’m still paying her back.

Even now.

But here’s the truth I’ve been avoiding—the truth that stings like a blade pressed against my throat.

I didn’t remember Aunt Rachel.

I only remembered the debt.

I buried her somewhere deep, in the same place I shoved all the emotions I refused to feel, all the memories too painful to hold. She was lost in the graveyard of everything I had to kill inside myself just to survive.

But then—

I look at her.

At the woman sleeping just a few feet away.
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