Week Thirty-Eight in the rehabilitation facility brought the twist I never saw coming — a visitor who was not Liam, not Sophia, not anyone from the Harem, but someone from a past I had tried to bury long before the fantasies began. Her name was Elena. My older sister. I hadn’t seen her in eight years. She had cut contact after our mother’s funeral, blaming me for the family’s breakdown, for being “too much,” for always needing attention. When the staff told me she had requested a supervised visit, my first reaction was panic. The Queen stirred immediately, sensing weakness, whispering that family was just another audience waiting to be impressed. I almost refused. But Dr. Voss encouraged me to take the meeting. “She’s family,” she said. “And family often holds the keys to the wounds we’re trying to heal.” Elena arrived on a gray Thursday afternoon, looking older than I remembered — sharp features, tired eyes, but the same straight posture that had always made her seem unt
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