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Chapter 9 The Blackwood Name
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2026-10-20 13:13:20
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Aurora’s POVHe said it like he had practiced it.I should have been afraid. I was not. I was angry, and I did not know where it came from.“How do you know my name?”Caden looked at me, and then he looked away at the building. “I read it somewhere.”“Where?”“I don’t remember.”“You said it like you did.”“This is private land, Dr. Blake.” He had used my title too. I had never told it to him. “You should not be here.”“Your family’s trust owns it. I found that in a county record.” I kept my voice level. “I wanted to see what a Blackwood was keeping behind a fence.”His jaw moved. “That is none of your business.”“Then why are you here?”He did not answer that either. A small wind went across the gravel and pushed the paper cup off the post. It rolled between us and stopped against my shoe.“Somebody gave you my name,” I said. “Who was it, Caden?”I had not meant to say his name. His eyes cut back to me.“Who told you mine?”“It was on the trust papers.” It was a lie, and I thought he
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Aurora’s POVI did not go home that night.I sat on the floor of the small lab with my back against the freezer and the tube in my lap. At six I called my mother and asked if Ivy could stay with her one more day. She did not ask why. I put the tube in a small cooler bag with an ice pack from the lab fridge, put the bag in my purse, and washed my face in the sink.Then I took out my small notebook. The numbers from the card were still there. A line of digits I did not understand.I tried them as a phone number. Nothing. I tried them as a lab code, a bank code, a hospital room, a hotel room. Nothing.Then I thought about the card itself. It had no name on it, so it did not belong to a person. It belonged to a place.The county kept an online record of every piece of land in the city, and every piece had a long number. I typed in the digits and pressed search.A page opened. “Parcel 4471. Industrial, vacant. Built 1968. Owner: The Blackwood Family Trust.”I read the last line three times
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