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Chapter 81: The Perfect Lie

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"What?" Deborah asked in confusion, her voice barely above a whisper. The single word hung in the air between them like smoke from a dying fire, carrying with it the weight of disbelief and the first sharp edge of pain.

Liam kept his back to her, his shoulders rigid as stone. His fingers dug deeper into the arms of his chair, the leather creaking under the pressure. The rope burns on his wrists throbbed with each heartbeat, a constant reminder of the choice he had been forced to make. He could feel her eyes boring into his back, searching for some sign that this was all a terrible joke, some indication that the man she loved was still somewhere inside the stranger who had just shattered her world with three simple words.

"It wasn't AI," Liam repeated, his voice hollow as an empty room. Each word felt like swallowing glass, cutting him from the inside out. "It was me."

The silence that followed was deafening. He could hear the distant hum of traffic outside his window, the soft tick of
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