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If I Let You Go

Author: Norah Black
last update publish date: 2026-05-05 18:54:46

**ATLAS**

This was the part where I was supposed to feel nothing…

Where I walked to my car and drove to my hangar, pretending that she did not just choose death over me…again.

So, no…I did not feel nothing. I felt a dark pulsing starting in my chest and spreading through my body as I stood there, half choking on the smell of the freshly painted door.

I fought the urge to walk back in there and tie her to the bed so she would not leave. I wanted to call her name like venom and poison her with m
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