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Chapter 36

Penulis: Sophie Lane
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-05 04:52:33

The drive home was quiet.

Not the comfortable kind of quiet.

The heavy kind.

John’s hands were tight on the steering wheel. Patrick kept glancing at her in the rearview mirror like he was trying to measure how fragile she was.

Sophia stared out the window as downtown Cleveland blurred into familiar streets — the restaurants she grew up in, the charity halls her mother hosted galas in, the private school she once thought was the center of her universe.

It all looked the same.

She didn’t.

Her pho
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