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11. Tyler

Penulis: J. Tarr
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-01-20 18:49:38

Life at Ridgecrest has been… better. Not perfect, but better. It’s been three weeks since I last saw Landon, and everything feels like it’s shifted. Noah and I have become closer—not in the way people seem to think, though.

It’s not romantic, not even close. He doesn’t push me, and I’m grateful for that. It’s just... easy between us. As much as anything can be easy for me now. But there’s still this undercurrent of anxiety every time I’m around him. Not because of anything he’s done, but because my body doesn’t know how to relax around Alphas, not even ones like Noah.

The memory of Landon still lingers, though. It’s like a pit in my stomach that hasn’t gone away since he disappeared. It’s not like I miss him—hell, I’m better off without him breathing down my neck, right? He was suffocating, intense in a way that had my instincts screaming to run.

But now that he’s gone, that absence feels strange. Unsettling, even. I thought I’d feel relieved, but instead, there’s this gnawing feeli
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His reaction is very normal, missing the attention you no longer have. Now he just needs to figure out if he is attracted to Landon. Let us read what a second take looks like.
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