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Author: Mia Moans
last update publish date: 2026-02-05 23:58:40

Chapter 34

~Iris

I lay awake staring at the ceiling, counting the cracks like they might rearrange themselves into answers if I looked long enough.

They didn’t.

The bond was still there, quiet now, like an old bruise you forget about until you roll the wrong way. It pulsed beneath my ribs, dull and aching, a reminder I didn’t ask for. A reminder of a man who had walked into my life like fate and walked out like it meant nothing.

I turned onto my side, curling inward.

At least before him, I kne
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