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Chapter 8: push

Author: Jewella
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-29 16:25:07

Devon~

The stove is already warm when she comes into the kitchen.

I know she’s there before she speaks, before the floorboard shifts or the light catches her reflection. The air changes. That’s the first thing. Something clean slides in under the smell of garlic and oil, something familiar enough that my hands pause on the knife without me meaning them to.

Soap.

Mine.

I keep my back to her and keep chopping, the sound steady, controlled. The onion stings my eyes but I welcome it. It gives me something to blame when I blink too hard.

“You need help?” she asks.

Her voice is level. No edge. No invitation. Like she’s asking about the weather.

“I’ve got it,” I say.

“Okay.”

No argument. No hovering. I hear her move anyway, the soft drag of her feet against the floor as she comes closer. She stops at the counter across from me. Close enough that I feel it. Not touching. Just… present.

I glance up without meaning to.

She’s wearing the shapeless clothes she pulled on after her shower. An old s
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