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BAD MOTHER

Author: BDEE
last update publish date: 2026-10-30 11:49:59

Chapter 98

The silence in the penthouse was heavy.

The kind of silence that only settles in after a minor crisis has passed and everyone is too exhausted to pretend they're fine.

Down the hall, Ethan was finally dead to the world. He'd woken up when we'd arrived and we’d bribed him with three massive scoops of vanilla ice cream—mostly because neither of us had the emotional bandwidth to argue about sugar intake—and it had worked. He’d crashed hard, his small frame curled up under the duvet, co
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