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Chapter 298

Author: Fanny S
last update publish date: 2026-02-22 18:01:46
I don't know when I stopped watching the door and started watching him.

My neck had found the edge of the bed frame at some point and stayed there. My back ached. My eyes had gone dry from hours of blinking too little. The kind of exhaustion that burrows so deep it stops feeling like tiredness and
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