Chapter 182
Author: Pen thinker
last update2026-03-03 22:37:13

At that moment, sitting in the middle of that circle with Anita's words hanging in the air like something deliberately poisonous, Megan said absolutely nothing.

Not because she had nothing to say.

Not because Anita's words had found some vulnerable and undefended place within her and left her genuinely speechless the way Anita clearly intended and hoped they had.

But because Megan had spent enough years in this environment, navigating its particular brand of cruelty with the careful and deliber
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