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Chapter 51

Autor: Augusta moon
last update Data de publicação: 2025-12-19 12:48:09

I wake to the smell of smoke curling into my lungs, sharp and acrid, nothing like the lazy woodsmoke from a fireplace. This is gasoline and old timber and intent.

My eyes fly open. The room is dark, the power dead, but an orange glow pulses under the bedroom door like a heartbeat.

“Cole,” I breathe.

He’s already out of bed, naked and lethal, gun in hand before I’ve even pushed the sheet aside. Moonlight through the window cuts across the hard lines of his body—the bandage still taped high on hi
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