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Chapter 52: A Second Chance

Autor: Anney GW
last update Última atualização: 2025-11-19 14:06:00
Julia’s POV

Sam appeared at my door, a concerned look on her face. Setting aside the file I was reviewing of a little girl with post traumatic stress disorder manifesting in tormenting nightmares, I cocked my head to the side.

“What is it?” I asked Sam.

“I have Andrew on the line? He says he wants to speak with you? He says it’s important?” Sam told me.

Andrew? Why was he calling? He’d made it perfectly clear that he wasn’t going to follow through with another appointment when he let Charlotte drag Oliver away.

“Do you…um…want to take the call?” Sam asked.

Did I want to take the call? That was a good question. Part of me wanted to tell Andrew to go to hell after the way he’d treated me. But another part of me did want to talk to him. Seeing Andrew had brought up a lot of confusing feelings in me. It was so hard. I wanted to hate him, and I should hate him considering what he’d done to me. But for some reason, I just couldn’t bring myself to hate him.

Assuming he was probably just calli
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