Ruby POVThe paper burned against my palm like it had been pulled from a fire.I stood frozen in the corridor, the muted sounds of footsteps and conversation fading around me. My vision narrowed until there was nothing left but the sharp black ink and the brutal simplicity of the sentence that had just rewritten the last seven years of my life.My daughter is alive.My firstborn.I reread the words a third time, as though the letters might rearrange themselves into something less catastrophic if I stared at them long enough.Someone had written Ruby Bell.Not Jane Campbell—the careful identity I had spent years building. Someone had walked into Blackwood Global, found me, and used the name I had buried seven years ago.That realization cut deeper than the claim about my daughter. I had changed everything—my name, my city, the way I walked, the way I spoke, the way I looked at people. I had built a life designed to keep Ruby Bell buried.And still, someone had found me.I scanned the c
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