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Chapter 19: The Diagnosis

作者: Lindy Writes
last update 公開日: 2026-08-17 01:45:16

Victoria Stewart had never once, in fifty-eight years, admitted to being afraid of anything.

So when the headaches started, sharp and sudden and unlike anything she'd experienced before, she said nothing for weeks, dismissing them as stress, as age, as anything other than what her own instincts were quietly warning her they might be. It was the fainting spell at a charity gala, in front of half of Eldridge City's elite, that finally forced her hand.

"It's nothing," she insisted, sitting rigid i
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