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Chapter 51 You're Old Enough Now

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*Ana*

That was awful of me.

The thoughts sits weighted on my tongue as the quiet in the east wing sits like silk over stone—soft, but weighted. I exhale, the sound barely louder than the ticking of the gilded clock nestled on the mantle across from me. Firelight bathes the sitting room in amber warmth, low orange embers crackling with whispered promises of comfort. Comfort that seems to elude me right now.

One of the less used sitting rooms, chosen precisely for its distance from prying eyes a
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