Chapter Eight – A New Life, Old Shadows Elena’s POV Five Year Later The moment the plane touched the ground, the loud screech of the wheels dragged through my ears, and something shifted inside my chest in a way I could not explain, because it was not just one feeling but many at once, tangled together—excitement, fear, hesitation, and something heavier that felt too close to pain. I was back. After five long years of running, hiding, and trying to rebuild myself piece by piece, I had returned to the very place I once escaped from, the place where I had left behind everything that had once defined me—my past, my love, and a family that had never truly seen me as enough. As the car pulled away from the airport, the city slowly unfolding before my eyes like a memory I had tried so hard to forget, I found myself staring at my reflection in the glass window, studying the woman looking back at me as if she were someone I had just met, someone I did not fully recognize yet somehow und
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