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Chapter 40

Autor: Anthony
last update Data de publicação: 2025-04-25 16:48:12

The auditorium was smaller than most the Turners had filled over the years, just two hundred seats, soft amber lighting, and a wooden stage framed by hand-painted banners that read:

Young Voices Rising: A Night of Storytelling.

It wasn’t a press event.

It wasn’t global.

But to Grace?

It was everything.

Tonight, she would tell her first story, in front of an audience, a mic, and her entire family.

Cassie sat near the front, holding Damon’s hand, heart pounding as hard as it had the night Hope la
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