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Author: Olivia GW
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(Thomas)

As the plane touched down in Denver, I could feel the tension in my shoulders begin to ease. It had been a long flight, longer than it should’ve been, but I knew it was more than just the hours in the air that made me feel like that. We were both exhausted, emotionally and physically, after everything that had happened in L.A. But as we got closer to the mansion, I noticed something shift in Lydia.

She had been quiet most of the flight, lost in her own thoughts, but now, as we drove through the familiar streets leading home, her face softened. Her eyes lit up, a spark of warmth breaking through the fatigue. I didn’t have to ask what she was thinking about because I already knew.

Mabel and Miles.

Our kids were the center of her world, the one thing that could pull her out of the darkness that Nathan had dragged her into.

And honestly, I felt it too. It had been too long since we’d seen them, too long since we’d been a family under the same roof. I glanced at Lydia as she loo
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