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Chapter 24 - The Last Question

Family are the people who make you feel the best

I wished Walter's words would stop ringing in my ears, but they stayed with me no matter how hard I tried to push them away. For the past week I had tried to pretend everything was going to be okay, forcing myself to smile at the right moments and breathe through the wrong ones. 

But Lena's whisper kept dragging me back to the truth. Step aside, he won't love your baby. Those words had kept me awake night after night, curling tightly around my chest until I could barely breathe.

I was sure I had lost my mind these past days, because here I was at the company, standing in the elevator as it rose toward Adrian's floor. He never wanted me here. 

He always said I disrupted him, that people would talk, that I should stay at home where I belonged. But he was never around at home anymore, and when he was, he barely looked at me. He would not talk to me there, so I came here.

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