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Chapter 17: A Choice

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last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-12-22 16:37:56

The vow hung in the cold, salt-damp air, a new and terrible covenant.

He will never know you. I will die before I let him touch you.

Aurora was still on the bathroom floor, but the hysterical, broken woman who had laughed and sobbed was gone. In her place was a new creature, forged in the ice of that final promise.

She was a mother.

The word was a shield. It was a sword. It was the first solid thing she had touched in weeks.

But the world was still built on Liam's lie.

She pushed herself up, he
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