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CHAPTER 301

Author: Olivia GW
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-25 10:54:09

Nico’s POV

Martha nearly dropped the bucket when she saw me up before sunrise.

“Well, I’ll be damned,” she muttered, pushing a strand of gray hair behind her ear. “Didn’t think I’d live to see the day Nico Lancaster wakes up before the roosters.”

I smirked and grabbed the broom leaning against the stable wall. “Don’t get used to it.”

Truth was, I couldn’t sleep. The image of that girl — the one who’d appeared out of nowhere yesterday — kept looping in my head. The way she’d looked at me like I was a problem she didn’t have time to solve. The way she’d walked off without another word.

I didn’t even know her name.

So I worked. Anything to get my mind off it. By midmorning, my shirt was sticking to my back, my hands raw from hauling hay bales and fixing fences. Martha was watching me like I’d been possessed.

“You sure you’re not sick?” she called out. “Never seen you so eager to sweat before.”

I ignored her, scanning the stretch of land beyond the corral. No sign of the girl.

By noon, I
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