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Chapter 146

Ethan’s POV

The moment I ended the call with child services and sent them the address, my hands were shaking so badly I almost dropped my phone.

I stood there for a second in the dim hallway outside Anna’s apartment, breathing hard, trying to slow my racing thoughts. My chest felt tight, like someone had wrapped a steel band around my ribs and kept tightening it with every new revelation.

None of this made sense, and yet all of it did.

I walked out of the building in a daze, the
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