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Chapter 33

Author: Chie
last update publish date: 2026-05-05 20:33:01

Brian's POV

I had known this would happen. Not like this though, not today. But eventually—

Something would surface. Something I hadn't place there.

The photo. Of all the things she could have found—

That.

I should have removed it but I didn't. That was my mistake. I closed my office door and didn't bother turning on the lights. The city was enough. I didn't need anything else.

It hadn't started with her. That was the part no one understood. They never did. People looked at the outcome and th
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