PART 2 — “THE THING MONEY COULDN’T FIX”

them where they were.

After the song ended, Ethan looked down, waiting.

For judgment.

For correction.

For that quiet disappointment he had learned to expect.

But it didn’t come.

Rose smiled.

“That felt different, didn’t it?”

Ethan nodded slowly.

“Yeah…”

Liam whispered, “It wasn’t scary.”

Nathaniel closed his eyes.

That sentence—

hit harder than anything else.

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