"This… The doctor said my pregnancy was unstable, so Justin gave me this bracelet to keep me safe. If you don't like it, Maxine, I'll give it back to you," Clara said softly, fingers already moving to take off the bracelet."Enough!" Justin barked, immediately stopping her, his voice full of distress."It's just a bracelet, Maxine. When did you become so petty?"Just a bracelet?Even after three years, even after telling myself I'd let everything go, those words cut deep, stirring up a bitter pain I thought I'd buried.That emerald bracelet wasn't just jewelry—it was the only thing my parents had left me. It was the Preston family heirloom, blessed by a priest.Back when I'd fallen ill with a strange, inexplicable disease, no doctor—local or abroad—could find the cause.My parents had been desperate. They cried for days before finally taking the bracelet to a cathedral.They climbed all 3000 steps from the base of the mountain to the cathedral at its peak, praying at every sing
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