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165: Because You Deserve To Know

Author: Lucy Stone
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-05 19:14:12

RAINE’S POV

At some point, I must have dozed off again. I didn’t mean to, but I woke up with that hazy feeling like my body wasn’t fully mine. Every time I ate, I just drifted. My eyelids would get so heavy, and the next thing I knew, hours had passed.

I struggled to sit up while my eyes adjusted. The dim artificial lights were reflecting soft yellow hues on the cream walls. The room was so silent making the sound of my breathing more amplified than normal, but that didn’t matter. What bothered me was my sleeping pattern and the exhaustion that came with it.

‘That’s not normal.’ I thought to myself.

Before the thought settled in, the door opened, and Talon walked in with a small cloth in his hand. His face was hard to read, like always.

He crouched next to me, and began wiping my hands gently, then moved up to dab at my cheeks and forehead, like I was a little girl.

“It’s too cold out here for a bath,” he said quietly.

I nodded. “Okay.”

I reached for the cloth. “Can I?”

He hesitat
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