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Chapter 27

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Lilith's Pov

As soon as I stepped out of Nolan’s house, a driver stood quietly at the side, waiting.

No questions. No comments.

Just a silent nod before he opened the car door for me.

I slipped inside and watched as the streetlights stretched across the windows in gold streaks.

I didn’t say a word.

Not on the ride.

Not when I stepped out.

Not even when I stood in front of our—his—house.

The familiar walls wrapped around me the second I walked in, and yet they didn’t feel familiar at all. Maybe because everything inside this house held a trace of Killian.

Even the air felt heavier around his name.

As I walked up the stairs, my mind wandered to earlier.

To the way he rejected my painting like it was nothing. Like I was nothing.

And then to the laughter I shared with Nolan.

I hated how light it made me feel.

How easy.

How free.

Killian and Nolan… they were both masters of words when they chose to be. But Nolan—Nolan carried softness in his silence. And Killian… he carried a war.

Was he
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