Family of shadows

out the window at the quiet streets, the warm morning sun mocking the cold emptiness inside her. Ronald's words echoed in her mi

reality of what he had become. The man she had trusted all her life was a stranger now, his secrets too d

been trying to protect her from. It was too much to handle. Her mother had sacrificed everything, including her life, for something Celestine

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fter everything. But there was a part of her, the part that had loved him unconditionally, that knew she ha