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Chapter 22

Author: A. Leilani
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Chapter 22

Ambelyn woke to the sensation of someone gently shaking her shoulder.

"Mama. Mama, wake up."

She blinked her eyes open slowly, as she was disoriented for a moment by the unfamiliar ceiling and kept blinking, trying to remember where she was and if she had been kidnapped without her notice.

Then everything came rushing back to her, as she processed it—Wednesday's apartment, the divorce, the new job that she had managed to get.

She turned her head to find Iniko standing beside the bed, already fully dressed in his school uniform.

"Baby?" She pushed herself up on her elbows, squinting at the clock on the nightstand.

Six-thirty in the morning.

"What are you doing up so early?"

"I got ready for school," Iniko announced proudly. He did a little turn to show off his outfit—navy blue pants, white polo shirt, and the school sweater with the St. Augustine Academy crest embroidered on the chest.

"See? I brushed my teeth and everything."

Ambelyn sat up fully, her heart squeezing a
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