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Chapter 17 - The Man Who Went AwayVictor went to prison.

Ethan was too young to understand.

“Daddy home?”

Victor knelt before him.

“Not yet.”

“Tomorrow?”

Victor swallowed.

“No.”

Ethan touched his father's cheek.

Victor nearly broke.

But he didn't promise what he couldn't give.

That was new.

Isabella became Ethan's legal guardian.

Lily stayed in his life.

Not as replacement mother.

Not as servant.

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As Lily.

And slowly, painfully, the strange family learned how to exist without ownership.

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