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Chapter Forty Five

Author: Richiegirl
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Kia

The voices from the council room lasted forty minutes.

I know because I sat on the edge of my bed and counted the minutes the way I had learned to count difficult things, one at a time, without looking at the total.

Liam had gone to stand outside the council room, not inside, just outside, in the specific position of a man who had decided that proximity to a situation was better than distance from it even when he had no power to change the outcome.

When the voices stopped, the silence was a
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