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Chapter 52 Daniel's Pov

作者: Anora world
last update publish date: 2026-04-23 18:01:39

Then I finally decided that what Lucian said was the most accurate description of my dad I had ever heard, and the accuracy of it did something complicated in my chest that I did not have a complete name for yet. Something that was partly relief and partly a kind of sadness, the sadness of understanding something about a person and having the understanding change them slightly from the version you had been carrying.

Dad was not a villain.

Dad was just a man who had been built wrong and had not
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