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Part 2- The Man She Married; Chapter 40

Author: Ruby
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-02-07 20:34:42

Sophia POV

Three months.

That was how long I had been married,.

It felt strange to think about it that way-, because for the first month-, it hadn’t felt like a marriage at all. Just two people sharing a space-, careful-, distant-, unsure of where to place themselves around each other,.

But two months ago, something began to change,.

At first, it was small—, easy conversations late at night that lasted longer than they should have,. Sitting together on the bed, talking about work, about things
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