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CHAPTER 60: The Return
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2026-03-21 22:32:00Élianor
The front door slams behind me, a sound too sharp, too normal, in the emptiness of my mind. The air in the house is warm, laden with the smell of dinner and the beeswax Martha uses to clean the furniture. A scent of life. It hits me full force, after the chemical asepsis of the hospital.
Two bursts of laughter come from the living room, followed by the gallop of little feet.
—Mommy!Two balls of energy rush at me, clinging to my leg
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LIORAFor the first time, his gaze leaves his glass and fixes on me. The scanner stops. The weariness, for a moment, seems to dissipate, replaced by a distant curiosity.“Memory is a thing, Mademoiselle Liora,” he says, his voice low, cultured. “But it is often a burden. In what form do you intend to turn yours into an asset?”The question is a punch. Intimate, almost brutal in its honesty. It instantly tears through the veneer of courtesy. Around us, I feel Raphaël and Chloé hold their breath.“In the form of heritage that anchors, that legitimizes,” I reply, keeping my voice steady. “A place without memory is a place without value. I think you know that. It’s why you’re here, at the Domaine des Saules. You’re not just buying stones. You’re buying a history to inhabit.”A silence. The tiny polite smile has vanished. His eyes, now, are fully fixed on m
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LIORAI look at her. I look at all of us. Slightly threadbare suits. Jewelry that’s seen better days. A pride in tatters, still held together with pins. She’s right. We are no longer anyone’s peers.“Then we’ll play the role,” I say coldly. “Until the role becomes reality. We’ll organize a reception. To welcome him to the region. Here at the club. We’ll do it properly.”They stare at me, first incredulous, then a spark of cunning hope lights up in their eyes. A reception. A perfect pretext. A gilded trap.“We split the costs?” Antoine asks, the eternal accountant.“We split the costs, we split the contacts, we split the information,” I confirm. “But. The information only. When he’s here, among us, it’s every man for himself.”My declaration freezes them for a moment. The solidarity of distress shatters at the first glimmer
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LIORAThe club still smells of old wood, wax, and disillusionment. But tonight, a new perfume hangs in the air, almost palpable: that of pure greed. Élianor Hammond’s cream envelope, with its contemptuous purchase offer, is still on the table, like a scar. But we are no longer looking at it. Our eyes are turned toward another target, fresh prey that has just, without knowing it, thrown itself into the pen.“His name is Marcus,” Raphaël announces, his eyes gleaming with nervous excitement. “He arrived three days ago. He bought the Domaine des Saules.”A low whistle cuts through the room. The Domaine des Saules. Two hundred hectares of woodland, meadows, and abandoned vineyards, with the old neo-Gothic manor overlooking the valley. A financial black hole for a generation. No one around here has that kind of cash to throw away.“What’s his story?” Chloé asks, leaning forward, her fingers graz
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MarcusThe cottage is a silence too vast. A silence that leaves too much room for the echoes of our confrontation, for memories distorted by time and desire, for the obsessive vision of her face—closed, denying, impregnable.I pace. The room is too small. The world is too small, now that I know. Now that I've seen them.Léon. Lilou.The names are incantations on my lips. A prayer and a curse. A discovery so monumental it crushes everything else: the search that brought me here. All of that seems trivial now, distant, the affair of a man I no longer was, and will never be again. Because what I'm discovering goes beyond anything I imagined… I found the woman from that night and with her, two children.I stop at the window facing the house. She's there, behind one of those panes. Rebuilding her armor, patching the breaches I thought I'd opened. She's repeating the lie to them, cementing it in their little minds. The t
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ÉlianorThe house door closes behind me with a dull thud that resonates through my entire being. I lean against it, palms flat on the cold wood, as if to anchor myself to the reality it represents. My reality. The only one that matters.But behind my closed eyelids, it's his face I see. Marcus. Distorted by a shattering certainty. And his words. His words that cut through six years of silence and barricades like knives.The Mercure hotel. The scar.An uncontrollable shiver runs down my spine. I press my hands harder against the wood until my knuckles whiten. No. It's impossible. He can't know. He can't remember."Mommy?"The small voice, full of unsatisfied curiosity, pierces me. I open my eyes. They're both there, at the foot of the stairs. Léon, with his stubborn air, his green eyes that are today a living accusation. Lilou, slightly behind, clutching her teddy bear to her, her refuge.ÉLIANOR
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SabrinaHer fingers are still tracing lazy circles on my back. Sweat is beginning to dry on our skin, creating a thin, salty film that sticks us together. The silence is heavy, satisfied. Then his voice breaks the spell, low and curious."And Liora? How is she?"I smile, burying my face against his
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