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Chapter 172 – Trapped and Doomed

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Carmilla’s POV

I stabbed at my eggs like they’d personally offended me.

“Well,” I said lightly, far too lightly, breaking the silence before it could do something worse, “thank you for heroically finishing my report and arranging an overnight motel stay I definitely signed off on.”

Nathan didn’t look up from the small coffee maker perched on the counter. He measured the grounds with irritating precision, steady hands, calm expression—like he hadn’t completely derailed my sense of balance in the last twelve hours.

“You were asleep mid-sentence,” he said. “I took that as consent.”

I scoffed. “I pause for dramatic effect.”

He turned then, mug in hand, one brow arching in that infuriating way that always made me feel like I’d already lost the argument. “You were drooling.”

“I do not drool.”

“You absolutely do,” he replied calmly, setting the mug down. “Only when you’re beyond exhausted.”

Heat crawled up my neck. “You’re enjoying this.”

“No,” he said. “I’m stating facts.”

I took a bite of
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