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Chapter 12 " The Thing Neither of Us Will Say”

作者: SStorm
last update 公開日: 2025-12-02 02:48:57

The knock on Jaxon’s door kept echoing in Brielle’s mind long after it happened like a harsh reminder that reality always found a way to tear into the moments she wanted to keep.

By the time they’d opened the door and dealt with the delivery guy who’d mixed up Jaxon’s mail again, that fragile, electric bubble between them had already burst. But the tension the unspoken thing didn’t go anywhere. It clung to them. Sat in the air. Followed them like a shadow neither of them could outrun.

Now,
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