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171: The reply

作者: Peace C
last update 公開日: 2026-05-15 22:42:21

Avery's POV

I picked up the phone.

His message was short. Four words.

'Always. How are you?'

I read it twice. Then I read it a third time the way you read something when the simplicity of it is doing more work than the words themselves. He had not said 'of course' or 'no problem' or any of the ten versions of that sentence that would have made it polite and forgettable. He had said 'always' and then asked how I was, and the two things together were the most compassionate response he could have
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