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Tension Rising

Author: Author Falley
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-26 23:28:24

Chapter: Forty Six The Day After - Tension Rising

The next day after we had arrived at the pack house, all felt. strange. It was supposed to be a fresh beginning, where we'd finally get to be established as a family. But it ended up feeling like this suffocating pressure on my chest, choking me whenever I breathed.

Asher had not spoken to me more than two words since we went inside the house yesterday night. He had been so cold, so aloof. The love in his eyes was absent, and in its place was a hollowness. He treated the triplets so gently, but it was different. It did not feel like he was doing it because he loved me anymore. It felt like it was something he had to do.

And knowing that, I was suffering more than I could bear.

We were already adjusting to the idea of living in this gigantic mansion. It was to be a refuge, a home where we would create happy memories. But it was too quiet. The silence was deafening. It seemed like every section of the house reminded me of everything that
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