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CHAPTER FIVE

Author: Famous Pen
last update publish date: 2026-05-02 11:24:13

IVORY'S POV

The car was warm.

That was the first thing I noticed, the first thing I catalogued and filed away behind the careful blankness I had been wearing since the moment Zion Valdris turned to Edward and said done without a single pause.

The car was warm, and it smelled like something I did not have a name for. Clean. Expensive. Like leather that had never had anything spilled on it, and underneath that, was another smell. Cedar, maybe. Rain on stone. The kind of smell that you could never
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