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CHAPTER 25: Thanks For What ?!

Author: Lady Sheldon
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-03 11:31:28

CAMILA

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The flickering screen cast a dull glow over the sitting room, the kind that made everything look slightly worse than it already was. I sat slouched on the couch, one leg tucked under me, absently munching on popcorn from a bowl I didn’t even remember grabbing. The show playing was god-awful—some cheesy reality dating thing where the contestants acted like middle schoolers who had been let loose on a sugar binge.

“This is terrible,” I muttered to myself as one guy dramatically declared he had “found true love” after two days. I mean, seriously. I couldn’t look away, though. It was like a train wreck—a slow, cringe-filled disaster that was somehow impossible to ignore.

Just as one of the girls started crying over someone taking her "connection" (yes, she actually called it that), footsteps thudded down the stairs. I didn’t bother looking up until I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. Ethan.

He strolled into the room, his usual storm-cloud expression pla
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