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Chapter Eighty: The Decision

Author: Precious
last update publish date: 2026-07-23 21:19:55

Her mother stayed until four.

By mid-afternoon, the house was alive with an unexpected debate coming from the sitting room.

Cullen and her mother were seated across from each other, deep in a discussion about small-business overhead versus macroeconomic theory.

Cullen brought up concepts he’d been picking up from Caiden over the past few months, while her mother countered with thirty years of real-world experience managing a local practice.

They argued over three separate points, agreed on two,
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