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Chapter 54

Author: Ellis Carter
last update publish date: 2026-03-22 13:27:46

Dylan's POV

There was something about the way she looked at me that night that made it impossible to pretend this was still simple. It wasn’t just the softness. Or the lack of resistance.

It was the fact that she wasn’t hiding it anymore.

Not completely.

She stood a few steps away from me, the dim glow from the city lights slipping through the window behind her, outlining her figure in soft shadows. The room felt quieter now, the kind of quiet that didn’t come from silence but from everything
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