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The Chase

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As the door closed behind his father, Adam sank onto the couch, running a hand through his hair. His father's words replayed in his mind, each one weighed down by a pain he had never fully understood before. Gregory Kavanaugh was a man molded by duty, but beneath that hardened exterior lay a wound that had never truly healed.

Adam exhaled heavily, his mind drifting into the past. Into the memories of the woman who had given birth to him and Ryan, the woman his father could never truly love.

Years Ago……..

A grand chandelier cast golden light across the luxurious Kavanaugh estate, reflecting off the pristine marble floors. Adam was only eight years old when he first began to notice it, the emptiness in his mother’s eyes, the way her laughter never quite reached her heart. Candice Vergara-Kavanaugh was an elegant woman, graceful in the way only the well-bred knew how to be, but there was always a sense of loneliness about her.

He remembered how she would sit on the garden bench, staring
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