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Chapter 18: What Could Have Been

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Chapter 18: What Could Have Been

Jake told himself he had made the right choice.

He had repeated it so many times in his head that he should have believed it by now.

But if leaving Sophie had truly been the right decision, then why did it feel like a slow, drawn-out mistake?

It had been weeks. Weeks of pretending he was fine, of going through the motions of his life as if nothing had changed.

And yet, everything had changed.

His mornings felt empty. His nights felt longer. He had spent years enjoying solitude, but this wasn’t solitude.

This was

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