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Chapter 70
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2026-05-02 09:25:38Alex's POV
The empty chair was the first thing I saw.I crossed the waiting room in twelve steps and stood beside it and looked at the space where Maya had been sitting... the folder gone, the bag gone, the specific absence of her that had a different quality from an ordinary empty chair because I had left her there and she had been there and now she wasn't.I turned to the reception desk"The woman who was sitting here," I said, to the receptionist wh
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