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Between Heartbeats

작가: Bea Baum
last update 게시일: 2025-10-31 02:08:48

BRYNN POV

Everything is quiet.

Not the kind of quiet that feels empty — this one feels… full. Heavy with warmth and light.

The pain is gone.

So is the fear.

I’m standing somewhere that doesn’t quite exist — a place stitched together from fragments of memory. The sea spreads out in front of me, endless and blue, the same color as Santorini. The air smells like salt and tequila and jasmine.

And they’re both here.

Vex stands to my right, dressed in black, hands in his pockets, watching the
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