91 The Lounge

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Nala We finally arrived at the lounge, a heavy silence settling over us as we took our seats. I could feel the eyes of everyone in the room, their stares like a physical weight pressing down on me. My uncle and his family looked utterly dumbfounded, their mouths slightly open in shock. Caleb and his parents—James and Elisabeth—sat motionless, wide-eyed as if they were seeing something that defied the laws of nature. And maybe they were. Twins separated at birth, hidden from each other for so many years… it was the kind of thing you read about in old legends, not something you expected to experience firsthand. But we all knew who was to blame for this—Levi and his wife. That old man, who was now rotting in the cells beneath our home, had committed a betrayal so deep and cruel that no

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