The day everything snapped, I thought it was just about money and dirt on my roses. I thought grief was simple: someone dies, you cry, you move on. I was wrong. It came in waves—an inheritance with strings, a stranger with my face in her eyes, a past I never agreed to carry. Every demand she made felt like punishment. Every half-truth she spoke felt like a test I was destined to fail. I swore I’d walk away before she broke me. Instead, I followed the trail of old letters, burned recipes, and locked drawers until the truth finally split my world ap…

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