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Death And Forgiveness
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2026-07-25 06:13:05**Chapter 122: Death and Forgiveness**
The days following Natasha’s death blurred into a haze of gray Manhattan skies and muted rituals. Grief has a way of softening even the sharpest edges of resentment, and in the quiet aftermath, I found myself moving through the penthouse like a ghost in my own life. Natasha Cross was gone. The woman who had once represented everything I feared—ambition unchecked, the perfect corporate counterpart to my husband—had left the world with apologies s
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