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When the Storm Finds Her Door

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Chapter 43: When the Storm Finds Her Door

Morning had barely broken across the horizon when Sophia opened her front door and found Lucas standing on the other side. He looked as if life had wrung him out. His beard was overgrown, shirt rumpled, and eyes empty of sleep—filled instead with unease and exhaustion. Neither of them said a word. The air between them tightened, thick with unspoken memories and complicated silence. Time stretched, heavy and suffocating, until finally Lucas asked, in a voice barely audible, “May I come in?”

Sophia didn’t reply immediately. She just stared, torn between curiosity and the ache of everything his presence stirred. Then, with a slow, deliberate breath, she stepped aside. Not because she wanted to welcome him back into her life, but because she needed to know why he was there.

Lucas entered as though he were walking through the wreckage of his own guilt. He didn’t sit down. Didn’t even make it past the doorway. He simply stood there, spine taut, jaw
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