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JUST REFER TO HIM AS HER DAD?

Auteur: Ray Nhedicta
last update Date de publication: 2026-08-10 18:07:15

Chapter 70

The set swallowed her whole the moment the director called action.

Riley had expected to feel small under the lights, exposed in a way she couldn't control, but instead something in her simply steadied, the way it used to back when she was a girl reciting monologues to an empty bedroom mirror, before Frederick, before any of it.

She said the lines and they stopped feeling like lines. Somewhere around the second take, she forgot the crew was even there.

"Cut. That's a print," the dir
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