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Chapter 38: Ignorance is bliss

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Bianca

The road stretched ahead, smooth and quiet, the kind of quiet that hummed in your bones. I sat curled into the far end of the backseat, knees tucked under me, my headphones in but the music was just... noise. It didn’t drown anything out. Not the pounding in my chest. Not the words still echoing in my head.

Happy birthday, my little star...

I blinked hard, forcing the memory of the letter back into the envelope. Dean was beside me, typing away on his laptop, his face lit by the faint blue glow of the screen. He hadn’t said much since we left. Neither had I. But his presence was steady, calm , quiet, unshakable. And right now, that was enough.

My childhood home was only a few hours outside the city, but the distance felt like eternity. Every mile forward dragged me further into memories I wasn’t ready for. Still, I had to go. I needed answers.

We pulled into the neighborhood just as the sky dipped into that soft evening orange, everything touched with gold. The last house on
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