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0076: Not Walking Away

Penulis: FlyingDove
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-30 00:23:22

ANGELA’S POV

The night air brushed against my skin, cool enough to make me aware of every inch it touched. We followed the narrow garden path behind the house, and the only sounds were the steady hum of crickets and the faint scrape of gravel under our feet.

The moonlight slipped through the trees, thin and pale, cutting across the stone like threads of silver. I carried my heels in one hand. My other was in Aaron’s, and for a long time, neither of us said anything. Peaceful. Too peaceful, maybe. The kind that makes your thoughts start circling back on themselves.

I kept thinking about everything, and then some. The wedding. My father’s expectations. The fake smiles at dinner. And Aaron. Especially Aaron, sitting across from me with that polite, faraway look he gets when something is wrong. Even now, he walked beside me, but there was a distance in him that made me want to reach out and shake him, or maybe hold him tighter. I wasn’t sure which.

I stopped walking. “Aaron,” I said quiet
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