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༄Chapter 40

Author: Lia's Ink
last update publish date: 2026-04-15 18:24:04

Bella's POV

Three hours.

I sat in that waiting hall for three full hours with my hands in my lap and my back straight and my mind running in every direction it could find and none of the directions were comfortable. The waiting hall was nice enough, quietly furnished, warm, the kind of room designed to make people feel settled while they waited for things they had no control over and I hated every inch of it.

What had happened to my father?

That was the question that sat heaviest. Not the cold
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