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Finale: Chapter 2
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Amaranthe
She walks the halls of St Leonards in complete silence. In a few years’ time, her own children would be doing the same. Anya had just joked about their girls running the school alongside their boys, and she was lying to herself if she said she didn’t think so as well.
They were at full occupation now, with the waiting list growing. She never would have thought Dimitri’s venture of a school for kids of crime families would do as well as this, with an expansion looming as well.
This proved that even the most hardened criminals cared for their children enough to send them to a school where their familial feuds did not reach them.
She rounded the corner to her office, and she got a lump in her throat when her eyes fell on Anya’s empty office. She could not bring herself to replace her best friend, so she struggled through the paperwork on her own. Dimitri had said she would need to replace the post soon, especially with the e
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