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Chapter Forty-Two: Helena
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Forty-Two: Helena
Helena Voss"She took the envelope," I muttered, to no one, standing at the gate after Sophie had turned and walked back up the drive.I watched her go. The way she moved, head up, back straight, the particular walk of someone who had learned composure not from privilege but from necessity. I knew that walk. I had watched it develop from somewhere. I knew exactly from where.I stood at the gate until she disappeared through the villa door.Then I went back to my car, sat in the driver's seat, put both hands on the wheel.Oh well, I did not drive.I had spent forty-nine years making decisions I could explain. I would not call it justification necessarily, but explain. There was a version of every choice I had made that, laid out in clean language, with adequate context, sounded like reason rather than failure. I had spent decades being very good at that particular construction.And now, standing at that gate, watching my daughter take an envelope from my hands throu
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