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63. There you are

Author: Anne Joyce
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SERA

I never questioned Reggie's decisions.

He must had his reasons.

That was the line I kept replaying in my head, like some mantra, every time that stubborn old man made a decision I couldn’t fully accept. But today—tonight—that line felt like poison slowly tightening around my chest.

I sat at the edge of his bed, right where I always sat whenever we talked. My spot. From there, I could look at him across the room, lounging on that worn-out leather sofa, complaining about corporate politics. I could still feel him there somehow. Like a ghost that refused to leave.

My hand clutched a letter. Edward had given each of us—me and the Blackwood brothers—a personal letter from Reggie.

The edges were already crumpling under my shaking fingers, but I couldn’t let go. This wasn’t a contract, or some company memo, or a blood-chilling will. It was just a letter. In Reggie’s handwriting, I knew those strokes by heart.

I had read it twice. Maybe three times? I wasn’t sure anymore.

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