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Chapter Seventeen: Learning How to Be Alone

Penulis: Ivy Monroe
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-27 17:37:50

The first few weeks in California passed more quickly than Aira expected.

Not because they were easy.

But because she refused to slow down long enough to feel them.

Staying busy became her defense. Her structure. The one thing that kept her from thinking too much about everything she had left behind.

Every morning, she woke before sunrise.

Sometimes it was the pregnancy that pulled her from sleep—an uncomfortable shift, a restless ache she couldn’t ignore. Other times, it was the silence.

The a
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