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.

truly did

exactly

room for malicious interpretation.

Literally.

the idea that it had all been a setup was so obvious that even the most cynical people in the room had to swallow

There had been a statement in the media.

on paper and very small

families get less coverage

didn’t care. I had bigger things to protect than the opinions of strangers. Still, I wasn’t

A field of facts.

the role didn’t come wrapped

officially

I had to adjust the dynamic to

Half in the office.

Half remote.

decision, not a

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