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Cracks Beneath the Calm

Author: Sresha
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-17 14:45:02
Julia — First-Person POV

I didn't stay upstairs.

I know I was supposed to. Alan's voice had carried the specific quality it carried when he meant something completely and expected compliance and wasn't interested in negotiating the terms of it. Stay here in that register had always meant I will come back to you, just give me the seconds to make the space between you and the threat larger.

I waited exactly long enough to confirm that I could hear voices downstairs — the specific back-and-forth of
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