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Chapter 110: Lila Reaches Out One Last Time
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"A letter. Handwritten. No demands. Just — words."It arrived on a Friday.Not by email, not through a lawyer, not through the elaborate system of intermediaries that had characterized every communication between Lila and the world for the past two years. Just an envelope, cream-colored, my name written on the front in Lila's handwriting, the handwriting I had known since we were children sharing a bedroom and she used to write her name on everything she owned in the same looping, deliberate cursive, as if claiming territory.Sofia brought it to me. She had been holding it for a day, she admitted, which was the closest Sofia ever came to protective instinct overriding professional judgment. She set it on my desk without a word and stood back and watched my face.I looked at the envelope for a moment."Do you want me to stay?" Sofia asked."No," I said. "I'll be fine."She left, which cost her something, I could tell by the set of her shoulders. I waited until the door closed. Then I p
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