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Thin Lines

Penulis: Aichatou
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-02-10 19:45:22

Gabriel’s POV

Yesterday, after dinner, when everybody had gone. I wasn’t in a rush to leave the dining room. Grandma also was still there, she sat across from me, her fingers lightly tapping against the wooden table, a habit she had whenever she was deep in thought. The house was quiet now, the air thick with the remnants of an earlier tension that hadn’t quite settled.

Then she spoke.

“I wasn’t surprised to see him today,” she said, almost absently.

I didn’t need to ask who she was talking abo
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I'm beginning to hate this woman and his grandmother and this story.
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