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Chapter 10

Author: Willow
last update publish date: 2026-10-19 22:42:00

Chapter 10

REIGNS

When I got up to my flat, there was a small box sitting on the floor outside my door.

It was plain brown cardboard. No name. No note. No stamp.

I looked up and down the dark hallway. Nobody.

I picked it up and opened it.

Inside, on a piece of folded cloth, was my mother's gold chain.

The one I sold. The one my father gave her the year I was born. It was the same chain, with the same small scratch on the clasp.

I stood in the hallway holding it and didn't understand. I turned t
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