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Chapter Fifty-One: Day Forty-One

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She did not file it away.

This was the first thing she was certain of when she woke on Thursday morning: she was not going to add the consulting room to the list she kept in the back of her mind, the place where she stored everything she wasn't ready to face. She wasn't going to file away the heartbeat, or the memory of his hand holding hers until the technician returned. She was not going to tell herself it was practical or transient or outside the terms of the contract.

The contract wasn't
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