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Chapter 33

Author: Crystal L
last update publish date: 2026-01-17 23:53:17

Lia:

For a moment, I couldn’t move.

Confusion tangled with relief so sharp it left me dizzy. I lay there as Marcel covered my thigh carefully, his movements precise, controlled, protective. He didn’t linger. He didn’t look like a man who had taken something. He didn’t even look like he was trying to.

He looked like a man who had kept a promise.

When he stepped back from the bed completely, something inside me loosened. And I found myself staring at him in a way that I didn’t even think should b
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