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CHAPTER 49- SIXTEEN YEARS

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Victor kept the forgery for a whole sixteen years. The same lie that once shattered my life was being dragged out again, and this time I would have to face it down in public, under lights, with witnesses. The thought sat like a cold stone in my stomach.

I called Sebastian that evening. Not because I needed him to fix it, Patricia and I had already built the counterstrike before I even hung up the first call. I called because he deserved to hear it from me first. Because somewhere in these last
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