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I remembered her shaking hands, her pale face, the way she begged to leave. Fear has a strange way of branding itself into memory. By morning, a decision had formed — not out of cruelty, but out of symmetry.
If words had once trapped me in fear, perhaps a mirror of that fear would finally close the chapter she left open. I arranged a surprise gift for the newlyweds, something beautiful on the surface, harmless in nature, but capable of stirring the ghost of her old terror. I didn’t need to raise my voice.
My brother’s anger thundered through the phone, accusing me of crossing a line. I listened quietly, then told him the truth — that lines had been crossed long ago, when a frightened child begged for help and no one listened. Silence followed.
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