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Chapter 8 Regret

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*Night*

Logan jolted awake, heart pounding from a nightmare.

In his dream, Jane was covered in blood, waving at him as she drifted farther and farther away into the darkness.

He sat up, forehead damp with sweat, and ran a hand through his hair. The room felt suffocating. He got out of bed and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. Outside, the moon hung high, surrounded by a sea of stars. He lit a cigarette, its glow casting fleeting shadows across his tired face.

It had been six years, but the regret never left.

Back then, after their divorce, the nanny had found a small leather-bound journal hidden in Jane’s vanity drawer. Without saying a word, she had handed it to him.

Logan never opened it.

Maybe he was scared of what he’d read — scared to confront the truth of how she’d felt. So, he locked it away in his bedroom safe, untouched all these years.

But tonight... after that dream, something shifted.

He walked over to the built-in wall safe, entered the code, and pulled out the jou
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