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Chapter 44

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The sky outside was a soft watercolor of dusk, peach-gold bleeding into lavender. I sat on the veranda of the Sterling estate, a silk robe wrapped around me, a cup of warm chamomile in hand. Alden’s laughter floated faintly from the nursery window above—he was trying to teach…