If he had known things would turn out like this, Henry never would have let Autumn return to that family every month.Just thinking about how kind she’d been to them, and how cruelly they repaid her, made his heart ache.Autumn tried to comfort them. “Uncle, it’s alright. Everything’s in the past now. Look, I’m fine, aren’t I?“Auntie, you don’t have to worry about me. I’ll take care of myself, and I won’t let them win.“They’ve tried to bring me down, yes, but every time they’ve failed. I’ve already cut ties with them. I don’t care about them anymore.”She hadn’t expected her uncle to know what had happened, and his outrage caught her off guard. Hearing them defend her so fiercely made her throat tighten.She hadn’t cried when Julian tried to humiliate her, nor when the Lewis family slandered her, nor even when she’d faced armed attackers.But in the face of her family’s concern, her eyes burned, and her nose stung with the urge to cry.She’d always thought herself strong, immune to c
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