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Chapter 283- Quit The Act

Penulis: NIGHT OWL
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For a beat, I just stared at him.

Two words—Who are you?—still rang in my ears, jagged and wrong, echoing inside my skull like a cruel joke I didn’t understand.

A laugh tumbled out of me, brittle and too loud for the quiet room. “Okay… okay, funny.” My voice wobbled, betraying me. “Really, Lorenzo? You wake up from a coma and that’s your first line? Are you trying to pay me back for what I did that day in the hospital?”

My hand shot out before I could stop it, giving his arm a playful tap—too light to be a hit, too shaky to feel normal. “Not funny,” I scolded softly, the way I had so many times before when he teased me. “God, you scared me half to death. Don’t—don’t do that.”

But his eyes. Those piercing blue eyes that had always read me like an open book—softened me, steadied me—remained blank. Not cold. Not cruel. Just… empty. Like he was looking through me.

The laugh died in my throat.

“Lorenzo,” I tried again, my voice barely a whisper. “It’s me. Emily.”

My fingers ti
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