The Golden Ritual
The kitchen smelled of burnt toast and old regret, a pungent, acrid mixture that clung to the walls of the Whitmore estate like a stain that no amount of scrubbing could ever fully remove, as if the house itself had inhaled the wrong things for too many years and now exhaled only the bitter residue of what had been promised but never delivered. Margaret stood before the counter, her hands...
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