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Chapter 10: A New Mask
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2024-11-17 05:45:30FAITH
It had been a month since I left that town behind. A month since I set fire to everything I knew—every tie, every memory.
Now, I was in Iowa. The place where no one knew me, where the ghosts of my past didn’t haunt the streets. It was quiet. Too quiet. But it was better than the alternative.
I was working at a small diner. The kind of place you didn’t remember unless you needed to. It wasn’t anything special—just a bunch of grease, some old men chatting about nothing important, and a few tired faces behind the counter.
A monotonous rhythm I’d quickly grown accustomed to.
Wake up, clock in, work through the day, c
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