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Chapter Forty six

Author: Chel-C
last update publish date: 2025-12-22 17:19:36

📘 CHAPTER 46 — After She Left

POV: Melissa

Melissa didn’t cry until the car had driven miles past the city.

The buildings thinned. Streetlights blurred into long streaks of yellow and white. Familiar roads dissolved into highways she had never memorized, and only then did something inside her finally loosen.

Even then, the tears came quietly.

No sobbing.

No shaking breaths.

Just a slow spill down her cheeks she didn’t bother to wipe away.

Crying felt pointless. She wasn’t grieving what she lo
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