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Chapter 6

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He saw the moment she attached the last name to the first. He saw the calculation, the color going and coming, the way she palmed her chest like a small, private pain had bloomed there.

Ah, he thought, the stomach dropping in a calm way he had learned meant the body would feel it later. Well. Ther
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