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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE

Author: Tobi
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-10-13 00:08:06

JOLENE’S POV

The winter air shifting through the small gaps in the master bedroom casement windows grew noticeably sharper over the next four weeks, bringing a heavy blanket of white frost that completely coated the high iron gates of our private Manhattan estate. My pregnancy had officially reached the absolute end of the third trimester, hitting the crucial thirty-nine week milestone that the pack medical team had set as our primary safety objective. My heavy, prominent stomach had dropped si
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