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Author: Maxpher1
last update publish date: 2026-03-26 16:23:56
"Emma—," he said, "You drew it because you couldn't stop yourself." She kept her voice even. Quiet. "Didn't you?"

It wasn't a question.

He closed the sketchbook. Carefully. Precisely. Like every movement needed to be controlled right now, or something would tip over.

He turned around.

His face was the practiced face, the morning face, the cold-and-correct face he'd worn since seven a.m. But it wasn't holding as well as it had.

There were cracks in it now. Small ones, around the eyes, at th
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