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Chapter 23

Author: Kacie
last update publish date: 2025-12-09 18:53:51

That night, Brenda was already packing her things.

She had booked two tickets to China, for herself and David, but she hadn’t used Hawthorne as her surname. She had used her own. It felt safer that way.

"Luis will crawl back for me," she muttered, moving on.

"He’ll realize what he’s losing… he’ll understand soon enough."

She kept packing until the door swung open, not too hard, not too soft, just deliberate, as if whoever entered were angry at the world.

It was Luis.

And, well… he
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