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Chapter 26

Author: Gem
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-28 18:13:51

Brandon’s POV

The store lights were too bright — the kind of bright that made everything feel fake, like we were on a stage, and someone had cranked up the spotlight just to watch Cameron unravel.

But he didn’t.

He sat in a velvet chair near the fitting rooms, legs spread, hands clasped loosely together, head tilted down like he was staring through the floor. His new suit — the one Mom insisted we buy — was folded neatly beside him, the fabric crisp and perfect.

But Cameron looked like a bomb waiting to go off.

And his stepmother kept lighting matches.

"...and honestly, Cameron, I don’t know why you’d choose something so formal," she said, flipping through a rack of jackets with fake disinterest. "It’s not like you ever have anywhere important to be."

I lingered by a clothing rack, pretending to scroll through my phone, but my eyes never left Cameron.

He didn’t move. Didn’t even twitch.

But I saw the way his knuckles whitened.

She paced in front of him, her heels clicking against the
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