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113: I still can't

Author: Peace C
last update publish date: 2026-05-03 20:48:45

Avery's POV

I had been off the stage for about three seconds when I saw him.

The first thing I thought was “of course.”

The second thing I thought was that I had no idea how long he had been sitting there, which meant I had no idea how much of the set he had seen, and the not knowing was worse than the knowing would have been.

He was sitting at a table near the back of the room, not at the bar, not in the thick of the crowd. Just at a table, alone, with a glass in front of him that he had not b
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georgia nimtz
He can say that now, but coming clean will not sit well with him, knowing it's been Avery all along!
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