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CHAPTER 43

Author: AH AMORA
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-23 23:44:42

ZARYA ROGOV

I flipped through the file's pages but found not a single interesting content in it. Hell, I couldn't even understand half of what was written in it. I sighed and closed the file, placing it in my closet behind the pile of hanging clothes.

I settled down on the bed and stared at the picture of my sister between the two men.

Anastasia...

I caressed her face with my thumb.

I might have forgotten what happened eight years ago, but I could never forget her. My sister...my only armour. I remember how she used to pamper me like I was her own child. I remember how she used to protect me whenever Father got enraged. I remember how she was the only one who remembered my birthday and celebrated it when my own parents forgot about it.

Until one unfortunate day, her name suddenly became forbidden in the same walls where her laughter echoed like a soothing melody in the Cold War.

She was the light...my light.

I also know the reason I forgot about what happened eight years ago had to d
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