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Chapter 81: Lily's Letter
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2026-09-23 21:26:00Lily Maxwell's POV
I watched Catherine Cross walk past our door for the third time in an hour and noticed how her footsteps sounded different now. Heavy. Slow. Like she was carrying something invisible that weighed too much. Mommy held me close on the small bed where we had been sitting for hours and I felt her heartbeat against my back. Fast and scared.
"Baby, try to rest," Mommy whispered. Her voice was soft but I heard t
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Loving You Is My Greatest Mistake Chapter 81: Lily's Letter
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Sophia Carter's POVI sat in the prison interrogation room with handcuffs biting into my wrists and waited for the call to connect. The fluorescent lights hummed overhead and cast everything in a sickly yellow glow. Two guards stood by the door and watched me like I was a bomb that might explode at any moment. Maybe I was.Maxwell's voice came through the speaker. Sharp. Desperate. "Sophia, we are running out of time. If you have more information, I need it now.""I know," I said. Stared at my reflection in the metal table surface. Hollow eyes. Hollow life. "That is why I called. There are things I did not tell you before. Things Catherine made me swear to protect.""Then why tell me now?" Maxwell demanded.Because I am dead either way, I thought. Catherine's reach extended into every prison in three states and I knew too much to be allowed to live. The only question was whether I died as the villain who helped destroy families or as the mother who tried to save her daughter."Because
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