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Chapter 86 : Coming Home
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2026-06-10 15:45:00Emma was fastening her earrings when her gaze drifted to her reflection.
For a moment she simply stared. Yesterday kept replaying in fragments. A terrace. A question. Silence. Her father’s face. The look in his eyes after she asked why she had never been enough. Emma closed her eyes briefly. No. She wasn’t doing this again. Not before work.
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