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Chapter 5: What Remains

Months later…

Blackthorn Manor was gone.

Sold.

Stripped.

Erased.

Just like he tried to erase me.

I stood on a quiet shoreline far from the city, the ocean stretching endlessly ahead.

Dad stood beside me.

No guards.

No shadows.

Just us.

“Do you regret it?” he asked.

I thought about the pain.

The betrayal.

The moment I realized the man I loved never truly existed.

Then I shook my head.

“No.”

Because in the end…

He didn’t destroy me.

He revealed me.

Stronger.

Sharper.

Unbreakable.

I turned toward the horizon, the wind steady against my skin.

And for the first time in years…

I wasn’t surviving.

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I was free.

End.

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