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Chapter 41

Author: Sophie Herway
Kaylee looked at the man beside her with shock.

When William had said "everyone has the right to be vulnerable" earlier, she'd already realized who he was.

During her and Alex's last summer of elementary school, Susanne had planned to send them both abroad to study.

Alex had looked forward to it for a long time, making a long list of plans.

Just looking at it, Kaylee knew it would cost an enormous amount of money.

She firmly refused to go.

So Susanne sent her to stay at the Morgan family's summer villa instead.

Those two and a half months at the villa were the happiest time in Kaylee's twenty years of living under others' roofs.

She helped the staff clean the house, trim the garden, and pick grapes and apples from the backyard.

The housekepers would make her delicious desserts, and that's when she learned to cook many things herself.

After she'd been there for over a month, an older boy arrived.

In her memory, he was a tall, thin teenager.

His bones were so prominent it loo
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