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Chapter 8

Penulis: Catherine
Miley's POV

After that day, Julian never came looking for me again.

But every now and then, things would appear outside my apartment door.

Sometimes it was that trendy cake I'd once mentioned was delicious. Other times, it was out-of-print law textbooks.

Once, it was even a rabbit plushie I'd begged him to buy me as a child—something he'd never managed to get back then.

I never imagined he would remember all these little things. It was as if he were trying to piece me back together, fragment by fragment, starting from the girl I used to be.

I craved this hidden, silent love, yet I was terrified someone would expose the foolish hope I shouldn't dare to hold.

That day, I was accompanying a woman in need of legal aid to the station.

Just as we reached the waiting hall, chaos broke out. Several men from the Blackhand Gang charged at us with knives.

Instinctively, I reached for the woman to run. But we were already too late.

One of the men was upon me, his blade aimed straight at
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