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CHAPTER 61 - The Woman Who Walked Away

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For several seconds, nobody moved.

Sofia stared at Victor, struggling to process what he had just told them.

Her mother had survived the fire.

All these years, she had believed Elena Vasileva was dead. She had accepted that the Council had destroyed her family before she was old enough to remember it. She had built her entire life around survival, never knowing that the woman whose blood ran through her veins might still be alive.

And now a man she barely knew was telling her that everything sh
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