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Chapter 59--

Author: Beauty m.j
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-06-26 04:59:05

Matteo stopped counting the days. It didn’t matter anymore.

Time didn’t move the same in this place. Sometimes he thought he heard clocks ticking somewhere in the walls. Sometimes he thought he was dreaming.

He slept in shifts. Ate what they gave him. Refused the rest. Refused the file on the table, the neatly stacked evidence, the slow poison of persuasion.

But the maze? The maze haunted him.

Every hallway was sterile. Every turn betrayed him.

He tried marking walls with his fingernails.
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