And an address.
Peggy picked it up with steady hands, though she felt nothing.
She stood.
And walked out without a word.
In her car, the tears finally came.
Not just because she had lost everything—
but because she had been made to feel like she had never been anything at all.
After a long moment, she opened the envelope again.
Inside was a short note in Richard’s handwriting:
*Go there. Trust me one last time.*
The words didn’t feel like an ending.
They felt like something else.
With nothing left to lose, Peggy decided to go.
Milbrook was a small, quiet town, the kind most people overlooked.
As Peggy drove through it, something felt… strange.
People noticed her.
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