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My undoing

Author: Precious Edmund
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-30 15:08:20

Luca’s POV

I had buried myself in paperwork since then.

Ink bled across contracts I wasn’t reading, I signed documents I didn’t give a damn about. My eyes moved, my hand scrawled initials, but none of it mattered. Not when every second felt like a war—my body burning with restraint, my mind screaming for silence.

Silence from the echo of her voice. Silence from the memory of her doubt.

Because all I could think of at this point was her.

And her betrayal.

The look on her face when I asked her to believe me, and she said she couldn't.

She hadn’t believed me. When I told her the truth, she had looked at me like I was the monster under her bed. And maybe I was. But not to her. Never to her.

So I stayed away, because that was the best thing to do.

Because keeping my distance was the only way I wouldn’t do something reckless. Something I couldn’t take back.

Like drag her into my arms and kiss the apology out of her mouth. Like ruining her just to feel whole again.

And God knows just ho
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