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Chapter 24: The Stepmother

Author: Dark Lótus
last update publish date: 2025-12-16 09:50:31

When Sebastian arrived home still processing the information Richard had shown him, still trying to decide when to tell Karen about his true identity; he paused at the entrance to the living room.

Karen was sitting on the sofa, her posture rigid, her hands clasped in her lap with that tension he was beginning to recognize as social discomfort.

And next to her, perfectly at ease as if the house were her own, was Dorothy Sterling, his stepmother.

Sebastian was completely paralyzed when he saw her
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