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CHAPTER 72

Autor: Flasky
last update Data de publicação: 2026-04-09 21:01:12

Eliza's POV

The word burned into my skull.

Too late.

I stood in Clara's empty room, the dust still settling on the windowsill, the cold seeping through the glass. Her bed was unmade. Her paper crane was gone. The only sign she'd ever been here was the faint scent of her shampoo and the silence where her laugh should have been.

Adam was beside me in an instant. His hand found mine. Squeezed.

"We'll find her."

"They took her. While we w
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