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Chapter 15 – Blood

Author: Judith GW
last update publish date: 2026-06-16 10:59:28

(Rene)

"You scowl like your mother. She scowled at me daily, near the end."

My father doesn't rise when I come in.

He stopped rising for people around the time they stopped rising for him.

"Father."

I take the chair across from him, because standing over him reads as a challenge, and we don't challenge each other.

Not in the open, where the pack would see.

Very rarely in here, where it's just the two of us and a lifetime of things we leave unsaid.

He's smaller than he was.

Whatever the illness
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