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Chapter 121: Not for long
The little boy stood there, his small frame caught in the heaviness of a room teetering on the edge of history. His grip on the pillow tightened, eyes wide as he looked from his mother to the stranger with a dagger at his throat, and then to the man beside them who he had come to know as Grandpa, holding a gun that had just been lowered.
He didn’t understand the undercurrent, the shadows stretching long between the three adults, but even in his innocence, he understood danger. He understood tension.
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