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CHAPTER 90 - The Circle Closes

Penulis: Flasky
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-08 03:57:11

Eliza's POV

Fifty-seven siblings.

I never imagined the number would grow so large. Fifty-seven men and women who shared my mother's blood, who'd been scattered across the country like seeds thrown to the wind. Fifty-seven stories of loss and longing, of searching and finding, of coming home.

The journal had brought us together. The garden had held us. Clara's House had given us a place to belong.

But the circle wasn't complete.

There was still
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