Corinne took the six-year-old girl’s sleeping pillow and threw it into a dog bed hidden beneath the end of the table.
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Chapter 13
I changed the family wing.
Not dramatically.
Mabel kept her room.
Evelyn’s old suite became a shared family library.
No bedrooms gained symbolic status.
No direct-heir corridor.
No special male rooms.
Architecture should not write succession before people do.
The dog bed?
Gone.
Mabel asked where.
“Storage.”
May you like
She laughed.
Good.
