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Chapter 20

Aвтор: Okoro Elizabeth
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Lucy’s phone buzzed again, slicing through the silence like a blade. Her fingers froze midair, trembling slightly. She had almost convinced herself to ignore it, to lock the phone away and pretend nothing happened. But curiosity, sharp, stubborn, and impossible to silence, gnawed at her chest until she gave in.

With a reluctant swipe, the screen lit up.

The message glared back at her:

“Lucy… It’s Damian. Don’t tell me you don’t remember me?”

Her breath hitched, her throat tightening as though the very air betrayed her. Damian.

The name alone crashed against her like a forgotten storm. Memories she thought she had buried clawed their way back, laughter under old oak trees, whispered secrets no one else knew, the kind of connection that felt scripted straight out of a movie. Bold. Magnetic. Dangerous. That was Damian.

Years had passed, yet the sound of his name still made her chest tighten, her pulse race like she was seventeen again.

Damian was no ordinary boy. He was the heir to the t
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