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Sienna's POV

Liam’s gaze shifted. Pain and guilt flickered there again, but I refused to let it reach the walls of my defenses that had only just begun to stand again.

I pointed toward the small parking lot across the street. “Your car’s over there, right? Go home.”

He looked at me as if wanting to say something, but didn’t. Maybe because he knew I was already exhausted, or maybe because he realized that not all wounds can be healed simply by showing up again.

“Drive safe,” I said at last—softer than before, but still firm.

I turned and began to walk away, leaving him standing alone amid the crash of waves and the sand growing colder beneath the night. I didn’t look back. Not this time.

Because I knew that if I stopped now, I’d be trapped again between longing and the wounds that had never truly healed.

My steps left trails in the dampening sand, every grain clinging to my feet like remnants of memories unwilling to let go. The sea breeze swept th
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