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Chapter One Hundred Five: The Silence Between Us

Author: LazyAF07
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Alexander Finnegan Robertson

Bloody hell.

Those bastards had nearly shattered her sense of safety, and here I was, fumbling through an explanation for my lateness as though that were what mattered.

What the fuck is wrong with me?

She didn’t need excuses. She needed comfort, patience and the reassurance that the nightmare was over.

I shrugged out of my jacket and carefully draped it around her shoulders.

“Anne… let me take you home, all right? Can you stand?”

She didn’t answer.

She didn’t even l
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