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Staying away wasn’t an act of cowardice; it was an act of preservation. I was waiting. I was watching the cracks in their foundation from afar, knowing that a house built on the ruins of another cannot stand for long. They thought the story was over, that they had successfully edited me out of the script.
What they didn’t realize was that Part 1 was merely the setup. The quiet sister, the one they had overlooked and discarded, was about to become the witness to a truth that none of them—not Oliver, not my parents, and certainly not Judy—could ignore. The storm was coming, and this time, I wouldn’t be the one trying to stop the rain.
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