RAGNA POV...
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Gustav, still sitting on the ground from the slap, suddenly went limp and collapsed, unconscious, his world finally caving in, because in that instant the dream he had always chased—the love and approval of his father—shattered completely, and everything he had planned, everything he had imagined, vanished in the space of just a few merciless words.
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GUSTAV POV...
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A dream I had chased my entire life shattered on that very day, because the father whose love I had begged for, whose acknowledgment I had built every ugly plan around.
Finally looked at me and erased me with his voice, disowning me so completely that everything I had schemed for, every future I had imagined where I stood above them all, collapsed and vanished in the space of just a few words, words that cut deeper than any blade—
'Exile… Disown… Stripped of the name Ringwood'
