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Chapter 27 - Lucas Returns the Footage

Once the criminal cases concluded, Lucas Trent offered Eleanor the original wedding footage.

“Do you want it destroyed?”

She thought for a long time.

“Yes.”

Then:

“No.”

Lucas waited.

“Keep the push as evidence archive where required.”

“And the rest?”

Eleanor watched a few seconds.

Before the helicopter.

She was laughing on the island.

Not fake laughter.

Real.

Jason’s motives had been false.

Her happiness in that moment had not been.

“Give me the ceremony footage.”

Lucas looked surprised.

“You want it?”

“I want myself back from him.”

He understood.

The edited film contained no Jason close-ups.

Mostly Eleanor.

Ocean.

Flowers.

Her niece.

Sunlight.

A woman at seventy-nine believing life could still surprise her.

May you like

Eleanor kept that part.

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