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CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

Author: Rena_bliss
last update publish date: 2025-11-05 22:32:36

TESSA

Even over lunch, my thoughts kept drifting back to Leonardo.

His face, his body, his voice whenever he was being flirty and teasing me. He looked shut off from the world, like he had built a wall nobody could scale through around himself.

One second he'd be looking at me like a desert he can't wait to have and the next he's walking out on me as if I was too insignificant, just like this morning.

But sitting here with Alex, listening to his jokes and his flirtatious words felt easy. I
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