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Chapter 6

Author: lady.serene
last update publish date: 2025-12-04 21:57:16
Isabella

Sleep wouldn’t come.

The clock on the wall blinked quietly in the darkness, red numbers slicing through the silence: 2:47 AM. I had been lying in bed for hours, staring at the ceiling, replaying every moment from earlier — the clipped tone in Gabriel’s voice, the way he refused to look at my stomach, and the coldness that wrapped around him like armor.

And then the way he paused at the door.

Ms. Reyes… you’re carrying?

Even now, the words echoed in my head, sharp and disorienting. He di
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