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Chapter 88: Facing Grace
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2024-10-29 19:42:56(Aubrey’s P.O.V.)
The audience starts to clap frenetically. My heart sinks to my stomach. Grace comes out from behind the purple curtain and waves at the people in the audience with a wide smile on her face. I am so taken aback I can not think clearly. This was a trap. I draw in my breath in as I watch her approach. Now I get why their parents are here, they have come to see her daughter. Grace walks towards us and takes the seat in front of me.
“Welcome, Grace Mortensen. What a pleasure to have you here with us again in my show,” Peggy Sue declares ecstatically.
“The pleasure is all mine, dear Peggy Sue. It is great to be back, but the name is White now. Grace White. After all the things that horrible man did to me I can no longer use his last name. Part of my healing process is to go back to the person I was before I met him, that includes using my
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