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Chapter 209: The House Is Quiet

Auteur: Eleanor Vance
last update Date de publication: 2026-07-12 22:30:18

The brownstone is quiet in a way that it's never been quiet before.

Alexander left three weeks ago to move into his apartment near the clinic where he works. Isabella and Morgan have been in DC for two months and they're building their life there. The house that's held our family for years now holds just us.

I notice the quiet in the morning first.

I wake up and Dominic is still asleep beside me and the house is silent. Not the silence of early morning. The silence of absence. The silence of kn
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