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Chapter 87

Author: Anne Author
last update publish date: 2026-04-09 21:15:23
Maui POV

Morning came too early.

Or maybe Maui just didn’t sleep long enough to feel like it had ever arrived.

She stared at the ceiling, unmoving, her thoughts heavier than her body. The faint light creeping through the window painted soft lines across the worn walls of her room, but nothing about it felt gentle.

Everything felt… final.

Her hand rested lightly on her stomach.

It's still flat.

Still unchanged.

But no longer empty.

The realization sat quietly inside her not loud, not ove
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