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Chapter 265: Addressing Concerns

Penulis: Evve
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-17 20:44:56

The letter Aria drafted was not a plea. It was an argument.

She sat at her desk in the home office—the one that had seen legal battles, financial crises, and midnight coding sessions. The screen of her laptop glowed with the stark white of a Word document.

To the Adoption Review Board, it began.

Noah paced the room behind her. He had read the draft three times. He kept finding small, legalistic tweaks that he thought would make them sound safer.

"Change 'challenges' to 'unique circumstances,'"
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