Chapter 24
Reclaiming the Future Leona’s fingers gripped the edge of her desk, the cool metal biting into her palms as she stared at the open file in front of her. The will. The trust. The endless pages of her mother’s legacy, all of it carefully designed to trap her, to keep her tied to a past she no longer wanted to be a part of. Her mother’s empire had been built on manipulation, on controlling the lives of everyone around her. And Leona? She had been no exception. Vivienne had shaped Leona’s life, molded her into someone she never wanted to be. But no more. No more. The clinic had been a step in the right direction. A place of healing, of building something new from the ashes of the past. It had given her purpose, a reason to keep moving forward. But it wasn’t enough. The past still loomed, a
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