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CHAPTER 44: The Awakening
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2026-03-15 05:40:14Élianor
One month. Thirty days exactly. Martha's house transformed into a cocoon, a space where time was suspended, healed by the sugar of Charles's desserts, the light of movies about stars, and the deliberate choice of my children. The fortress held. My foundations, those foundations welded by the love of two little beings, remained solid.
But underneath, something shifted. A core of ice formed in the warmth of my belly. That vertigo caused by Léon'
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