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Chapter 26

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“I won’t argue with paper,” he said, forcing light into his voice where the dark wanted to sit. “It never admits defeat.”

She looked at his mouth like it still remembered things from another morning and then made her eyes behave. “Don’t make this harder than it is,” she whispered.

“I’m not,” he
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