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Chapter 450

Author: A. Leilani
last update publish date: 2026-09-26 09:53:35

Chapter 450

SILVIA

Sophia sounded surprised when I called, though pleased underneath it, the way she always was when I offered to take one of the boys off her hands for a weekend.

"Just Ollie?" she asked. "Are you sure? I don't want you to feel like you have to single him out, Silvia, he might feel—"

"I'm not singling anyone out," I said, which was, strictly speaking, a small lie, since singling Ollie out was exactly what I intended to do, but I'd learned over the years that framing mattered en
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