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Chapter Twenty-Two:

Penulis: Pearl Charles
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-06 17:58:24

Aurora’s POV

“What child?” My voice comes out lower than I expect.

Sebastian takes the photo from my hand and turns it over again, like the words might change if he looks at them long enough. You were both wrong about who the child was. He reads it once more. Then he looks at me.

“I don’t know,” he says.

I laugh once, but there is nothing light about it. “That is getting old.”

“You think I like this any more than you do?”

“I think your family keeps showing up in every part of my mother's life,
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