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Chapter 8: The Confrontation

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The garden air was cool against my flushed skin, but it did nothing to calm the storm raging inside me.

Sophia stood three feet away, her cream sweater catching the faint light spilling from the mansion windows. She held the pharmacy receipt between her perfectly manicured fingers like it was a weapon.

Prenatal Vitamins.

The words stared at me from the crumpled paper, bold and damning.

"I think," she said softly, her smile never wavering, "you've been keeping a very dangerous secret."

My heart
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