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0035: IF GLARE COULD KILL

Author: Ink Hashira
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-12-04 00:33:01

JUNE’S POV

The phone rang that morning. It was Franklin. His voice was all business, like he was reading a memo. “Flight is tonight,” he said. “I will be home for dinner.”

Home. That word just sat in my ear afterward, heavy as a stone. Just like that, the three days were up. That strange, breathless space in the house, the one that had started to feel like anything could happen, was about to be filled right back up. Filled with his quiet, his rules, his disapproval. It felt like a cage door swinging shut. I could almost hear the click.

Out of pure habit, I got started on his favorite. Salmon with herbs, asparagus, that lemon tart he always pretends he does not love. Good wife stuff. But my head was not in the kitchen at all. It was stuck in the steam of the bathroom, back against those cool tiles.

I could still feel Luca’s hands in my hair. The way he looked at me while he washed me, like I was something precious. Not just functional. The memory was so loud and so real that I did not
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