Chapter 17: The Ghost at the Hartley Gala
Olivia's POV
The night of the gala, I got there early—way before my dad and that woman even left the house.
Sophie had scored us the perfect spot.
A corner of the upper terrace, tucked behind a stone planter that was just wide enough to block us from the main crowd's sightline.
I had Sophie's ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Impossible Return
2. Chapter 2: When the Past Becomes Doubt
3. Chapter 3: The Weight of Fourteen Years
4. Chapter 4: Alex
5. Chapter 5: The First Lesson
6. Chapter 6: Uninvited Guest and a Declaration of War
7. Chapter 7: The DNA Report and the Weight of Memory
8. Chapter 8: Digital Ghosts
9. Chapter 9: When a Ghost Goes Online
10. Chapter 10: You're Still You
11. Chapter 11: First Contact
12. Chapter 12: The Precinct
13. Chapter 13: The Standoff
14. Chapter 14: Desperate Alliances
15. Chapter 15: Jealous
16. Chapter 16: The World She Left Behind
17. Chapter 17: The Ghost at the Hartley Gala
18. Chapter 18: When the Son Says "Mom"
19. Chapter 19: The Perfect Stepmother's Trap
20. Chapter 20: Mother and Daughter
21. Chapter 21: What You Stopped Doing
22. Chapter 22: Moonlight Confessions
23. Chapter 23: Ghosts and Closed Doors
24. Chapter 24: Lunch with Mom and a Test of Truth
25. Chapter 25: Little Schemes in High Places
26. Chapter 26: The Two Faces of Richard Winston
27. Chapter 27: But Mom—
28. Chapter 28: The Aftermath of the Storm
29. Chapter 29: What I Dug Up
30. Chapter 30: The Money and the Trap
31. Chapter 31: A Million-Dollar Lesson
32. Chapter 32: The Cost of Walking Out
33. Chapter 33: The Lady of the House
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