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chapter 31

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Kael’s POV

There are different kinds of noise.

The kind that fills a room with laughter and clinking glasses.

The kind that hums beneath music and polite conversation.

And the kind that settles inside your chest when something doesn’t sit right but you can’t name it yet.

The party was full of the first two.

The third one stayed with me.

I noticed it the moment we arrived.

Ava didn’t try to command attention. She never does. She simply exists, and the world adjusts around her. Men notice
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