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Author: Roshni
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-02 16:34:19

Franklin’s POV

The sound of the latch was enough to make me step back without thinking.

Old reflex. The kind that months of being on edge had built into me without asking permission. My shoulder hit the opposite wall of the corridor before I’d registered that I was moving away from a door that was opening rather than something coming through it.

Then I saw her face.

Vivian. Her eyes were red at the edges and her hair was pulled back in the hasty way of someone who had not been sleeping, and the
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