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chapter 10:The Photograph

作者: Noura writes
last update 公開日: 2026-02-19 04:01:11

I couldn't go back to the penthouse. Not yet. Not with Flynn waiting, expecting explanations I couldn't give without exposing that I knew everything.

I sat in my car outside the storage facility. Boxes loaded in the trunk. And realized I had nowhere to go.

No friends left after three years of isolation. No family except a cousin who was also my husband's ex-wife and an uncle who'd kidnapped me.

I pulled out my phone. Stared at Sienna's number.

Then noticed. Three missed calls from Unknown.

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