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CHAPTER 16 - THROUGH THE WINDOW

Author: Grownup barbie
last update publish date: 2026-07-15 19:15:51

*Ezra's POV*

It was late by the time I got home, the apartment dark and quiet except for the hum of the fridge and the ache in my legs from a night of standing too long in a club I hadn't wanted to go to in the first place.

I didn't turn my bedroom light on right away. I went straight to the window instead, the way I used to back home, some habit I hadn't managed to unlearn even three months and one transferred school later.

The Ryland house across the street had lights on downstairs. I stood t
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