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Chapter 70

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Stacey’s POV:

I stared at my reflection in the rearview mirror for what felt like too long. My lip gloss was still intact. My earrings matched. No mascara smudges. From the outside, I looked... composed.

Inside? I felt like a house of cards standing in a wind tunnel.

The parking lot was mostly empty, except for a few scattered cars and a man in a hoodie pacing while talking on the phone. The air carried the promise of rain, thick and weighty, like it too was holding something back. I took a breath and stepped out of the car, heels crunching softly against the gravel.

Liam’s apartment complex hadn’t changed, same chipped staircase railing, same ivy climbing the corners like time was trying to reclaim it. I knew the route by muscle memory, even though it had been months. Two lefts, up the stairs, third door on the right.

I knocked before I could talk myself out of it.

The door opened sooner than I expected. Liam stood there in sweatpants and a faded T-shirt, holding a towel like he’d ju
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