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Chapter 48: The confrontation

Author: Clarisko
last update publish date: 2026-07-19 12:59:12

SCARLET ♠️

I did not lie, because what is point anyways.

I want that understood clearly, because I could have. I could have said the photograph meant nothing, that Ray had simply been walking me to my car after an appointment, that his hand at my back was the ordinary courtesy of a doctor and nothing more. I looked at Maya’s face across the table, at her eyes that had already done the math long before she called me, and I understood that any lie I offered her now would be an insult to whatever
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