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I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND YOU A LITTLE BETTER

Author: She's Royalty
last update publish date: 2026-07-09 07:45:51

CHAPTER 22

/NATHAN/

The morning sun streamed through the bare windows of my living room, lighting up the dust motes hovering over my cardboard boxes. The apartment looked completely different from how it did a month ago. The posters were rolled up, the kitchen counters were entirely wiped down, and everything I owned was taped up inside brown boxes.

In two days, I was moving to Silicon Valley to start my position at SiporaTech.

A month ago, the sheer thought of change would have had my chest ti
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