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Chapter 2

Word Count: 893    |    Released on: 10/11/2026

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another man stood beside my hospi

island breaking down game film of the Blades' struggling power play-notes Landon always took to the coaching staff and claimed as his own brilli

and Evan think it's time we stop hiding. A drawn-out divorce is bad for my Summerlin Performance endorsement bid

ooked at me as if I were an overzealous fan asking for an autograph in

aternity ward, Ciaran Whitlock's eyes

ice-calm register that usually preceded a five-minute major penalty on the ice. "She nearly collapsed on th

the clinking of champagne glasses and a woman's breathy

ear my wife, Whitlock? Keep your nose out of my marriage. Rhea knows my schedule, and she

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eve covered her mouth with her hand, while the nurse muttered so

nk myself to fit into Landon Sterling's shadow. As an orphan who had grown up in a quiet Midwestern foster home after losing my memory in a childhood fever, I had clung

t even spare u

burned away by pure survival instinct. If I didn't protect Noah and Lily from a father who treated them like an inconvenience, no one would. I would

xpression-not pity, which I would have hated, but a quiet, unmistakable re

tle Asher's shoulder, the Boston ca

tin Summ

my hands were shaking so badly I nearly dr

the routine postpartum blood panel that had crossed my computer screen twenty minutes ago. When a mother with no documented fami

me on the chart

ars ago, my older brother Edward and his wife Evelyn had lost their four-year-old daughter during a chaotic winter festival in Chicago. Since that day, the entire Summe

ing's admission chart. She had Evelyn's exact high ch

mi-private ward, registered without a single

sistant and dialed my brother's privat

top whatever you're doing and get Evelyn and the boys to Mount Sin

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