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Modern family

Author: Saylam Mangenda
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BEN POV

I told myself it would be quick.

Sign the papers. Avoid eye contact. Leave.

Nolan had arranged everything to minimize my presence—a quiet meeting room on the sixth floor, a private elevator, and a lawyer who barely looked up from her paperwork. It should've been easy. But the moment I stepped into New Way Group, the walls felt too high, the floors too polished, the air too judgmental.

I hadn't been here since the fallout. Since my grandfather found out that I wasn't the innocent, obedient girl he'd raised, but the woman who had fallen in love with his son. Since he told me I was adopted, an outsider, a mistake. I told myself none of that mattered now. I was here for Ambrose. For our child.

The pen felt heavier than it should've when I signed the documents. My hand trembled slightly, but I didn’t let anyone see. I was almost done when the door creaked open.

"Why wasn’t I told she was here?"

That voice. That thunder wrapped in silk.

I turned.

There he was.

Ernest Chiles. My gran
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