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Chapter 58 - You Can't Outrun a Shadow

Penulis: Shay Calestia
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-04 00:54:21

Remi

Sleep was no refuge last night.

It dragged me backward. Through years I’ve tried not to relive.

The dreams came in fragments at first — soft ones. Her small arms flinging around my neck the first day she saw me.

Arianna had been so tiny then. Four years old. Thin, trembling, those enormous blue eyes wet with terror.

She had run straight past the policemen with guns… past the blood… straight into my arms like she had known me her whole life.

Brother, she had whispered.

And from that moment
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