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breath.
“I was trying to protect my family.”
“When Claire married Leonard, I moved on. Years later, your mother and I had you.”
At the mention of my mother, my chest tightened.
I remembered very little about her. Only fragments: dark hair, a gentle voice, the scent of lavender.
Dad had always told me she left when I was little.
Then Julian quietly said, continue reading …
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