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Chapter 497 - 497/Your Sister's Boy

Chapter 491

Julie's POV

I laid every single harrowing detail bare for Steve. I held back nothing: from the catastrophic truth that had shattered my entire reality, to the quiet, sleeping boy I had watched through a crack in a dark bedroom door, down to the clinical roadmap Dr. Mark had laid out for approaching Ethan without triggering terror. I spoke while staring fixedly down at my intertwined hands, feeling as though the words were tumbling from the lips of an entirely different woman recounting a stranger's nightmare.

When I finally fell silent, a profound, heavy quiet swallowed the room. Steve sat motionless across from me, his skin drained of all color, having abandoned all interruptions halfway through the confession. Finally, he lifted his head, his voice raspy and cracked:

"So he's alive... and I'm not allowed to see him today?"

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