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Chapter forty-one: What Her Mother Hid**

Author: V. Omoruyi
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-09-23 02:05:21

ELIRA

I wrote the letter to Elder Kael three times before I was satisfied with it, sitting at the small desk in my room with the single candle burning low, my hand cramping from how tightly I gripped the pen.

The first version came out too angry, full of accusations I wasn't ready to make out loud, even on paper, even to a man who had lied to me by omission for sixteen years. The second version came out too pleading, too small, the voice of the girl I used to be before this estate had taught me
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