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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO — OBSERVATION II

Author: Aveline K
last update publish date: 2026-03-23 04:45:33

LUCIAN’S POV

By the time Ezran left the house for his date, I had already told myself twice that I wasn’t going to follow him.

The lie lasted less than twenty minutes.

The café was smaller than I expected.

It sat on a quiet street corner, squeezed between a library and a flower house. The café looked like it hadn’t been renovated since the early 2000s. The sign above the door read SERENITY SIP, written in uneven cursive letters.

Not somewhere I would normally be. Yet here I was.

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    I didn’t answer him. For a second, I couldn’t.My brain stalled completely. Like everything inside me had just short-circuited at once.Did he just ask me that? Yes, he did.And did I find it hot? Yes, I did.I could swear I was gradually losing my sanity. I swallowed hard, my throat suddenly dry.

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