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Chapter 69
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2026-05-02 07:04:48Alex's POV
The nurse was efficient and pleasant and I registered approximately forty percent of what she saidThe other sixty percent of my attention was on Maya.She had looked at me when I walked in with the specific expression of someone whose composure had developed a crack before she could seal it. The concern... real, unmanaged, arriving before the filter engaged... had been there for approximately four seconds before she had reassembled the professional versi
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