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chapter 105

Author: TemsRay
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Two weeks had passed since the court’s decision.

The restraining order had been approved. Ken was officially barred from contacting Lia or Julian in any form directly, indirectly, digitally, or physically. He was also instructed to undergo psychological evaluation, though no one expected him to comply.

But Lia didn’t feel safe.

She felt watched.

She felt followed.

And no matter how many times she told herself it was paranoia, something in her gut screamed otherwise.

It was in the way her security cameras picked up a shadowy figure pacing the sidewalk across her new home at night…

It was in the way Julian’s class teacher casually mentioned that a “friend of the family” had inquired about Julian’s school pickup time…

It was in the bouquet of white lilies left at her office door with no card, only a small, folded paper that read:

"He looks like me, doesn’t he?"

Lia’s hands had shaken as she crumpled the note and locked herself in her office. Her fingers trembled dialing Ruben’s number.

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