Chapter 183
Author: Pen thinker
last update2026-03-03 22:37:31

But she also knew, with the cold and entirely unsentimental clarity of someone who had observed how Anita's world worked for long enough to understand its mechanics thoroughly, that a single word offered in Megan's defense would be received not as a reasonable appeal to basic decency but as a declaration of allegiance, and that declaration would travel from this circle back to Anita's awareness and from there directly to the relationship between Alice's family and the network of support and con
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