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Chapter 7

Author: Joe Michael
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-06 02:58:34
Years slipped away like rain dripping down a windowpane—slow enough to be felt, fast enough to be gone before Henry could hold them.

By the time he turned eighteen, Blackwood Academy no longer felt foreign. He had grown into its halls, carved his place in its classrooms, earned the respect of professors who once looked at him with a veiled doubt. His brilliance could no longer be ignored, and his name appeared on every academic honor roll.

And yet, in the shadows of that success, whispers still clung to him.

The scholarship boy who never left the Principal’s side.

The exile’s son who was still fed, clothed, and sheltered by another man’s charity.

The boy whose future was whispered about far more than it was ever asked of him.

Henry had learned to endure it. He had no other choice.

The apartment Adrian had given them became more than a shelter; it became their life. Rent was never late, the fridge was never empty, and Evelyn—his mother—never once had to scrub dishes in res
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