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Chapter18

作者: Okoro Elizabeth
last update publish date: 2026-08-31 16:47:25

Kai stood a few steps away on the path, hands in his jacket pockets, expression calm but unreadable under the dorm lights. His eyes moved from Zara to Maya, then back to Zara with a softness that looked practiced… and still somehow intense.

“You’re freezing out here,” he said, voice low and warm. “Come on. Let’s go home. You can talk to your friend another time.”

For a second, Zara just stared at him.

Then she remembered the cameras, the campus eyes, the performance they still had to keep alive
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