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Chapter 202

Author: C Olive
last update publish date: 2026-07-11 21:59:18

Maya's POV

Alex had insisted on the table.

Not the kitchen table.... the dining room, which had the space to spread things out properly, to lay the documents alongside the photographs alongside the notebooks in the sequence that made the connections visible rather than keeping everything stacked in the box where the connections were invisible.

He had been out of the hospital for two days.

He moved carefully, the way people moved when they were aware of something healing and were choosing
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As much as I enjoy reading this story, I feel like it needs to speed up a bit. Maya and all these characters keep finding shit out but the audience is still left waiting for things to be revealed to us.
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