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CHAPTER 178 – MARCUS’S TRUTH

Penulis: Ssally
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-20 20:14:25

Marcus’s POV

I watched both of them try.

Lucian, in his careful way — the Friday texts, the space given in exact measurements, the patience that looked effortless and I knew wasn’t. Dominic, in his blunt way, showing up with food, refusing to let her disappear behind politeness, pushing until she gave him something real.

Both of them were working from what they knew. Both of them were doing their version of the right thing.

I wasn’t sure either version was landing.

I thought about it for three
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