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I was already feeling fragile, curled up on my sofa under a weighted blanket, nursing the worst flu I’d had in years.
My head throbbed. My throat felt like sandpaper. Every muscle ached.
When my phone buzzed on the coffee table, I ignored it.
When it buzzed a second time—and then a third—I let out a groan and reached for it, wincing at the bright screen.
It was my brother, Andrew.
“Hannah,”
he said, his voice dripping with a sickening false cheerfulness I hadn’t heard in ages.
“Big news. Mom and I are in the area. We’re swinging by the farmhouse in about twenty minutes. We have some legal papers to go over with you.”
I blinked, the fog in my head thickening.
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