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Chapter 7

Author: Leema Kamal
last update publish date: 2026-05-20 23:59:09

BRIAN

I got back from Ibiza on a Tuesday.

I was tanned, tired, and carrying a suitcase I'd half-packed in a hurry because somewhere around day four of that trip I'd stopped being able to pretend that I was having a good time. Lena had taken about a hundred pictures of the two of us on the beach and I'd smiled in all of them even though I felt absolutely nothing.

The house was quiet when I got back.

I stood in the hallway for a second, just looking. Something felt off right away, but I couldn’t
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