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CHAPTER 92

Author: Shadyside2004
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-30 01:52:10

Elisa did not speak for several seconds after Leonard’s laughter faded into the line.

Her fingers were numb around the phone, as though the device itself had turned to ice. The silence pressed in on her chest, hollowing her out, leaving behind an emptiness that felt frighteningly permanent.

“You were right,” she said quietly.

Leonard hummed, the sound amused, indulgent.

“Oh?” he replied. “That didn’t take long.”

She swallowed hard, forcing the words past the tight knot in her throat.

“I believed he was different,” she continued, her voice brittle but steady. “I really did.”

“And now?” Leonard asked, his tone light, conversational—cruel in its casualness, as if they were discussing nothing more consequential than a change in weather.

“And now I know better.”

There was a pause. Brief. Deliberate.

Then Leonard laughed softly.

“You always were a hopeful little thing,” he said. “Painfully so.”

Her jaw tightened.

“I’m not calling to be mocked.”

“Oh, but you are,” Leonard replied easily. “Wh
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