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BOOK 3 - CHAPTER 28: THE CONFRONTATION ABOUT DISTANCE

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{MAYA POV}

He’s been gone for three days, and I’m done pretending I’m not angry about it.

I stare at my phone, at the pathetic string of messages I’ve sent Ethan over the past seventy-two hours. Each one more desperate than the last. Each one met with increasingly vague responses.

“Family emergency,” he said. But what kind of emergency lasts three days without a single real conversation?

Sophie appears in my office doorway. “You’re doing that thing again.”

“What thing?”

“Staring at your phone l
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