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CHAPTER 8 : The Promise We Could Not Keep

作者: Elena Rossi
last update 公開日: 2026-08-01 10:32:09

No one spoke.

The old photograph lay in Elena's trembling hands.

Three young faces smiled at the camera beneath the bright summer sun.

Her mother.

Her father.

A teenage Adrian.

They looked happy.

Carefree.

Like people who believed the future belonged to them.

Elena turned the photograph over again.

The three of us against fate.

The words blurred as tears filled her eyes.

She looked at her father.

"You knew Adrian before I was born."

Matteo nodded.

"Long before."

"And you never t
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