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chapter 81

Author: Vero Writes
last update publish date: 2026-09-07 20:51:40
Knox's POV

I'd carried this particular truth so long it had stopped feeling like a secret and started feeling like a permanent piece of furniture inside my chest, something I'd stopped noticing until Calla's question knocked it loose.

Not tonight, I'd told her. But sitting alone in the workshop after she left, sawdust settling in the quiet, I understood I'd have to say the rest of it eventually, and putting it off any longer felt like just another version of the cowardice I'd watched Soren confe
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