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Chapter 79: Catch Me

Author: Tear stained lore
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-08-10 20:59:12

Dean had been stuck on the same three sentences for so long that I started to wonder if the paper was judging him back. He kept reading them under his breath, over and over, like repetition might eventually sand down the edges until they sounded like something a real person would say instead of something printed on a donor plaque.

I watched him for a while, then finally reached across the table and slid the sheet out from under his hand. “You sound like a brochure.”

He looked up at me immedi
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