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Chapter 140

Author: A. Leilani
last update publish date: 2026-03-16 22:19:59

Chapter 140

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He was sharper than I'd been giving him full credit for. The therapy had done more than improve his parenting—it had apparently cleared some of the self-absorption that had been obscuring his analytical instincts.

I made a decision in the space of two seconds, which was about as long as I could reasonably pause before he read the pause itself as information.

"The intelligence we've shared is accurate," I said. "The threat to your son is real and you're right to take it serious
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