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Ready or Not

Penulis: Bea Baum
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-12-03 17:42:30

BRYNN POV

I wake slowly.

At first there’s nothing—just the soft press of sheets against my skin and the distant hum of morning traffic bleeding through the windows. Then my body remembers before my mind does: heat, lips, hands that knew exactly how to make me unravel.

Kade.

His name flickers across my thoughts like a secret I shouldn’t know.

I shove it away.

The clock on the side table reads 9:47. Too early to feel this… tangled.

I press my palms over my eyes, but that only makes it worse. Behi
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