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CHAPTER 9

Author: Ella D’Ravyn
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-17 00:46:14

The silence that follows the revelation about Harvey and Beatrice Ashford is deafening. I feel as though the ground has disappeared from beneath my feet, leaving me floating in a void where nothing makes sense.

I lived six years as a dead woman.

Nausea hits me in violent waves. Every fabricated memory of Boston—the parents I visited on weekends, the childhood photos I didn’t recognize but pretended to, the birthdays celebrated with strangers who smiled at me with a l

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