Amara’s fingers trembled as she held the papers, her eyes scanning the words that blurred together in her shock. Her breath hitched as she tried to focus, tried to comprehend the weight of what lay before her.Case of Mr. and Mrs. Lenz– to be closed permanently.Her heart stopped.The paper slipped from her grasp, fluttering to the polished floor like a fallen leaf. A deafening silence followed, one where she could hear nothing but the furious pounding of her own pulse.She could not breathe.Her parents’ case—her life’s purpose, her reason for clawing her way through hell—he wanted it erased. Wiped away with a single stroke of a pen, as if it had never existed.Slowly, she lifted her gaze to Rafael, her body trembling from something far more potent than the cold she had endured outside.“You… you want me to close the case?” Her voice was hoarse, barely above a whisper, but the fury behind it burned like fire.Rafael leaned back into his chair, his expression unreadable, though there
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