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Chapter 5

Author: Everwind
Julian stared at the next document blankly.

It was Yara's miscarriage report.

She had been two months pregnant.

For a moment, he couldn't process what he was seeing. Then the past few weeks began rearranging themselves in his mind. Yara had barely been eating. She'd mentioned more than once that she wasn't sleeping well.

At the time, none of them had thought much of it. All three of them had been too wrapped up in Nora, too focused on keeping her happy and helping her recover.

Now every one of
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