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Chapter 075

Author: Nancy's Best
last update publish date: 2026-09-19 18:21:20

Noah Pov:

Ivy called me the moment she hung up with her grandmother, her voice trembling so badly I could barely make out her words at first. I sat up in bed immediately, alarm spiking through me at the raw fear evident in her tone.

"Ivy, slow down. What happened?"

"She lied," Ivy said, her voice cracking. "Noah, my grandmother just told me she forged the entire clearance document fifteen years ago. There was never a doctor's examination at all. She falsified everything herself."

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