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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

Author: Kayiora
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-18 14:08:02

They walked in silence. The kind that stretches too long and coils itself around your spine like a warning. Every step Lydia took felt heavy like the earth was watching. The woods had gone still again, the way it did before a storm or after something bad.

She did not look at Ethan. Would not. Could not. Not with the way her skin prickled just being near him. Not with how her body still remembered his. How he had thrown himself over her like a human shield, heat and muscle and growl. That stupid heroic instinct of his, like saving her was something he did not even need to think about.

It made her chest feel tight.

She focused on her boots instead. Watched the mud cling to the soles. Let herself listen to the crunch of twigs and not the way his breathing sounded when he was close. Not the way the scent of pine and heat and Ethan kept messing with her brain.

And still, he said nothing.

“You are quiet,” he muttered finally. “What is the matter? Cat got your tongue?”

She scoffed, folding h
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