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Chapter 158

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Richard didn’t move after he said her name. He stood there as if giving her room to walk away if she wanted to, even though every line in his body leaned subtly toward her—toward closeness, toward confession.

Monet wiped her hands on a towel, suddenly aware of the trembling in her fingers. She wasn’t sure if it was from exhaustion or from the way he was looking at her, like she was the anchor he’d been gripping all day.

“All right,” she whispered. “Explain.”

His jaw flexed. He nodded once, slow, thoughtful. Then he reached past her to switch off the running faucet, as if even small sounds would get in the way of what he needed to say.

“Mara… meant something to me,” he began quietly. “Not romantically. Not the way you think. But she was—” He inhaled shakily. “She was a lifeline.”

Monet swallowed, heart thudding.

Richard continued, “When Hannah died, everything around me collapsed. I wasn’t sleeping. I wasn’t eating. I was barely holding myself upright. And Mara… she stepped in. She han
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