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Chapter 82: Liam's Guilt

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Liam watched the medical team swarm Sophia's room and felt something fundamental break inside him—not dramatically, not with the cinematic shattering of previous crises, but quietly, inexorably, like a foundation crumbling under weight it was never designed to bear.

This was his fault. Not Connor's, not Victoria's, not The Council's or Richard's or any of the external forces that had hunted them for months. Th

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