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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX: THE ACCOUNTABILITY CONVERSATION
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2026-05-16 09:04:35Riley came off recovery on a Monday.
She walked into the compound at eight in the morning. Not slowly. Not with the tentative quality of someone testing whether their body had kept its promises. She walked in the way she always walked. Direct. Like she had somewhere specific to be and had already calculated the most efficient route.She looked healthy. The two weeks had done what two weeks of enforced rest do for people who had been running at the wrong pace. Something had settled in
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