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Chapter 620: Love Without Strategy

作者: FortunaSolis
last update 公開日: 2026-04-21 02:14:29

The realization arrived quietly.

Not as an epiphany. Not as a decision spoken aloud. It surfaced in the small, unremarkable spaces where urgency used to live and no longer did.

Nathaniel noticed it first in the morning.

He woke without reaching for his phone. No instinct to check overnight reports. No reflexive scan for instability. T

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