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Chapter Nineteen — What Comes Next

Autor: Char Writes
last update Data de publicação: 2026-03-21 14:09:03

Two weeks after the summit Valeria went back to the estate.

She had not planned to. She had told herself she needed more time... more days in the ordinary world, more conversations with her mother, more of Dante appearing at the apartment with takeaway and the particular easy company of siblings who have been through something and don't need to keep talking about it. She had been telling herself that for fourteen days while she organized her thoughts and sorted through five years of a life that
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