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Chapter 24: No One Owns Me

Author: Thompson
last update publish date: 2026-04-19 00:04:34

QUINN

Morrison hung up on the call and gave me a look.

That same look he gave when he thought he had me already figured out, or I was a tool to control. But he was always wrong.

Things were revolving around me; I was in the center. Every talk, action, and call was about Quinn Ledger.

Whatever the person had said to him on the phone, I knew it was about me.

It was at that juncture that I decided I was tired of hiding under his auspices. I had lived my life for more than two decades, manoeuvring
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