Chapter 725

Gwen’s POV

On Monday afternoon, I returned to Kensington like someone reclaiming a piece of herself. I walked through the building entrance with the same posture I had always carried.

But there was one essential difference now.I wasn’t trying to prove anything anymore.

For weeks, I had lived with the feeling that my name was being used as a weapon by people who had never actually known me.

And the cruelest part of that was simple.

Lies always had more space than normal life.

Headlines loved “kidnapping stepmother.” Clicks loved “scandal.” Comments loved the version that was easiest to hate.

But what I had now was the one thing the internet could never steal.Those who knew me, And they did.

They truly

had handled the board exactly

for malicious interpretation.

Literally.

he finished, the idea that it had all been a setup was so obvious that even the most cynical people in

There had been a statement in the media.

A “correction” that looked significant on paper

happy families get

protect than the opinions of strangers. Still, I wasn’t naïve.I knew that “correction” didn’t erase weeks of insinuation.It only gave me

A field of facts.

the role didn’t come wrapped in romance

was officially back

had to adjust the dynamic to fit my new

Half in the office.

Half remote.

logistical decision, not a

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