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Chapter 36: The First Lie Back

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It started with a time and location.

No name. No “please.”

Just a message:

Tonight. 9PM. The greenhouse behind the old conservatory.

August stared at it all day.

He didn’t tell Ash.

Didn’t respond either.

But when the hour came, he found himself walking through the dark, his hoodie pulled over his head, hands buried deep in his pockets.

His footsteps felt louder than they should have, echoing through the abandoned paths that used to lead to student dorms and now just led to memory.

He reached the greenhouse.

The door creaked open with a hesitant push. It smelled like damp leaves and dust. Moonlight spilled in through the dirty glass panels above.

And then he saw him.

Sebastian.

Leaning against a rusted table, arms folded, eyes already on August like he’d been waiting a lifetime. He hadn’t changed. Same tousled black hair. Same dark sweater. Same unnerving, magnetic pull.

“You came,” Sebastian said, voice low.

“I shouldn’t have.”

“And yet…”

August looked away. “You always did know how
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