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Chapter 132 Echoes Between Heartbeats

Author: Royal Jay
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-21 18:13:50
—Sophia’s POV

I don’t know how long we sat there.

Ethan’s hand over mine.

Both of us just… watching.

Watching the rise and fall of our son's chest like it was the only thing left tethering us to the present. Not because it was quiet.

But because, for once, it didn’t feel like we were running anymore.

No gunfire.

No shouting.

No lies unraveling in our hands.

Just breath. Just stillness. Just being.

Then his fingers twitched.

Not Ethan’s.

The boy’s.

Ethan leaned in, like a string pulled him forward without asking. His shoulders went tight. The kind of tension that lives between hope and dread.

The boy stirred. Blinked once. Twice.

Then looked at Ethan.

“Dad?”

It was barely a word. Just a thread of breath trying not to break.

But it shattered something wide open in me anyway.

Ethan didn’t speak.

Didn’t flinch.

He just reached.

Pulled the boy, our boy, into his arms like he’d been waiting his whole life to do it.

“I’m here,” he whispered. Low.
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