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Chapter 38

Author: Diti Koshy
last update publish date: 2025-12-13 23:57:25

[Elara]

“Um, thanks?” Dr. Wolfe says, his tone even, unreadable.

I laugh softly. “I mean, I would’ve never guessed you to be so close to someone like Griffin Magnus. And the fact that you were sitting right next to him just proves he must think very highly of you.”

His expression doesn’t shift—not at first. He studies me with that cool, assessing stare of his, and I realize I might’ve said something I shouldn’t have. I’m just about to backtrack when the corner of his mouth lifts—subtle enough t
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    I blink.Have I? Fallen for her?Of course, I have. Who wouldn’t?She’s gorgeous. Outstanding. Brave.A definite example of beauty with brains.Only an idiot wouldn’t fall for someone as amazing as her.And I’m surely no idiot. I’m probably one of the smartest people alive.Kidding.But still. The fact remains untouched. I have fallen for Elara. Hard and very hard.She’s still looking at me, her dark eyes brimming with tease.She’s messing with me right now. But she has no idea what kind of bomb she has ticked off inside me with those playful words of hers. Can she even handle the consequences of detonating me right now?I suppose we’ll see soon enough.The corner of my mouth tips up, my gaze dropping to her lips before slowly climbing back to her eyes. “What if I have?” I say, and slowly—very slowly—start pushing my butt off the couch and leaning my hands on either side of the couch. “Would it be such a bad thing?”Seeing me leaning over, she instinctively leans back. Not breaking ey

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    My fingers clench into fists so hard that my knuckles ache.I know I don’t have the right to be jealous. I know it’s my own damn fault. But what right does he have to take what’s mine?What right does he have to let my daughters call him Dad?Cora and Vera are my daughters. Mine. Not his.I turn to Elara, and she seems to be looking at Griffin, too. And not like the neighbor she told me he was—or the doctor treating Cora—but something else. Something more. Something that… just thinking about it makes me want to throw up.Griffin sets the girls down and looks over at me. His smile softens into a calm, polite expression, but there’s a protective flicker in his eyes as he steps slightly in front of them.“I didn’t know we had guests,” he says, the corner of his mouth tipping up, looking even more smug than last time.He doesn’t even try to hide it. The smugness. The superiority. The satisfaction of having what I can’t have. He’s basking in my misery, and he’s enjoying every second of it.

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