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CHAPTER 78

Author: Flasky
last update publish date: 2026-04-15 23:30:51

Eliza's POV

Five years later.

Clara's House had grown.

What started as a small shelter in my mother's memory had become a network—safe houses across three states, a legal fund for women fighting for custody, a job training program that had placed hundreds of survivors into careers. The garden where Clara had planted her first tree was now a sprawling sanctuary, full of flowers and benches and paths that wound through quiet corners.

I stood at the entra
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