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Chapter 28: Watched

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The security upgrades happened quickly cameras added to the penthouse's private entrance, a rotating detail of two guards stationed discreetly near the building, Amelia's driver instructed to vary routes and timing whenever she left for the literacy program or to visit her mother. It felt, at first, like an overreaction, a level of caution that belonged to spy movies rather than her actual life.

Then, three days into the new protocols, one of the security guards flagged something on the buildi
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