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Chapter 7 — Starting ALL OVER

Author: Karine writes
last update publish date: 2026-04-16 19:17:19

LYDIA'S POV

The apartment on West 84th had one bedroom, a kitchen that smelled like fresh paint and a window in the living room that looked out over a street that was always busy.

It wasn't much but it was mine and I could breathe peacefully in it.

I signed the lease on a Tuesday afternoon with a pen the landlord handed me across a folding table and when I wrote my name I wrote Cole and then stopped and looked at it for a second, cancelled it and wrote Shaw, I was done signing. Then I capped th
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