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Chapter 94: Only You

Author: Eleanor Vance
last update publish date: 2026-05-01 15:57:50

**Nadia**

The hotel room had been his choice and my approval.

That was how we did things now and I had not once taken it for granted, the asking, the waiting, the genuine adjustment when I said not that one, the other one. The room was high up with the ocean visible from the bed and a balcony we would probably not use because thirty-four weeks pregnant in coastal wind was not the romantic image either of us was going for, but the view was there and the light from it was the last of the gold fro
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