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Chapter 63: Forbidden Touch

Author: KING DAVID
last update publish date: 2026-04-22 21:41:27

POV: Kai

The fluorescent lights of the library’s basement level hummed with a low-frequency buzz that felt like it was drilling directly into my skull. It was nearly midnight, and the air down here smelled like ancient paper and the cheap, burnt coffee Ava insisted on drinking to stay awake.

I leaned back in the plastic chair, watching her. She was bent over a stack of macroeconomics textbooks, her brow furrowed in that way that usually meant she was about to solve a problem or yell at me for n
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