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Chapter 89: What Margaret Never Said

Author: Agatha Ikpasa
last update publish date: 2026-09-07 00:09:54

Roza POV

Vivian Pruitt lived in a small cottage outside Manchester, the kind with roses climbing the front wall and a cat that watched me suspiciously from the windowsill as I knocked.

She opened the door slowly, a woman well into her seventies, sharp eyed despite her age, studying me for a long moment before speaking.

“You have her eyes,” she said finally. “Margaret’s. I would have known you anywhere.”

“You knew my mother.”

“For nearly fifty years.” She stepped back to let me in, gesturing tow
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