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    Just then, a consultation room door swung open nearby. “Okay, I hope next time we meet, you can share more interesting things with me.”


    Rnd’s ears, ever so sharp, picked up her voice instantly. Without a nce, he bolted.


    Amanda Duffy caught only a fleeting glimpse of arge ck shadow speeding past. After bidding her patient farewell, she peered around the corner but found it deserted.


    Rnd was now pressed against the fire escape, not sure what he was hiding from, but feeling ridiculous for anyone to know he was visiting a psychologist. As he made his way home, the skies turned sullen again, with rain beginning to pour.


    Rnd hastened from the front yard to the back, and before he could step inside, he caught the tail end of an argument between Joelle and Katie.


    “He is a person! He isn’t some puppet for you to manipte at your whim!”


    “He’s my son, and I’ll raise him my way! Joelle, stop putting on airs. Have you forgotten your days dutifully serving the Miller family? Now you think you’re some kind of noblewoman?”


    Joelle remained unprovoked. “Your son? Who left him at the orphanage the moment he was born?”


    Katie’sposure faltered, her eyes darting around before she realized Rnd had stepped out. “Even if I did desert him, I’m still his mother. Joelle, you have no right to take him from me.”


    As Rnd stood just outside the door, his face turned ashen.


    Joelle, unaware of his eavesdropping, advanced towards Katie with resolve. “I never used to fight over things, but if you keep poisoning Rnd’s mind, filling his life with bitterness and sorrow, then I will take him away.”


    “Joelle, you wouldn’t dare!”


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    Rnd had never seen Joelle this fierce.


    “Even if it turns him against me, I will do whatever it takes to free him from selfish people like you and Wade. I got you out of the sanatorium once; I can just as easily send you back. I’ll leave you alone, penniless, writhing in misery until yourst breath. And I will make sure your son sees me as his mother, because you’ve forfeited all his respect!”


    After ss, Aurora was the first to sprint out of the ssroom, textbooks in tow. Dunn’s car was stationed at the school gates. Through the windshield, she saw him seated inside, waiting.


    They hadn’t seen each other for nearly half a month. Bursting with happiness, Aurora flung open the passenger door. “Why are you back so soon?”


    “I wrapped up my work early, so here I am,” Dunn replied. “I’ve got a dinnerter, but first, let’s grab lunch.”


    Aurora yfully teased him. “Oh? Think you’re the only busy one? Am I just supposed to be at your beck and call?”


    “I know your schedule well. No sses this afternoon, violin club tonight, back in your dorm by ten, asleep by eleven,” Dunn recited, causing Aurora’s cheeks to bloom.


    “You should ditch the pharmacy gig; you’d make a great detective!”


    Dunn grinned. “Aurora, it’s always me syncing up with your calendar, not the other way around.”


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