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Chapter 185

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"Are you blaming Sydney for your mother's death, Owen?"

The weight of his question hits me like a bucket of ice water. I freeze, the reality of what I just muttered sinking in.

What is wrong with me? How could I even think that, let alone say it out loud? The guilt, heavy and suffocating, slams i
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