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Chapter 76

Author: Ria Ofor
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Jacob

The silence was overwhelming, wrapping around me like a suffocating shroud. It pulsed through the apartment with its heartbeat, thick and oppressive, pressing against my eardrums until I could hear the rush of my blood.

I sat curled on the balcony, knees drawn to my chest like a child hiding from monsters. Outside, the city lights blurred through the rain-streaked glass.

The rhythmic tapping of water against the pane matched the nervous drumming of my fingers against my thigh… a rhythmic beat of anxiety that wouldn't quiet.

Nathan remained oblivious to the chaos unfolding in my brain. From the corner of my eyes, I watched him bent over his laptop at the dining table, the blue glow of the screen painting his features in an otherworldly light.

His forehead wrinkled in concentration, he occasionally tapped a pen against his bottom lip in that absent-minded way I'd always found endearing.

His attention remained unwaveringly on his work, granting me a moment to reason, a break fr
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