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44 - Hers Alone

Author: Grace Kara
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-11-23 13:27:12

Slowly, her hand shaking, she brought the spoon to her mouth. She chewed and swallowed, every movement feeling amplified in the deafening silence.

She kept eating, her eyes darting toward him every few seconds

He didn’t move. He just sat there, a brooding, silent statue, his presence a crushing weight and a strange, anchoring comfort all at once. He was guarding her. Not from the shadows, but from the inside.

This became the new rhythm of their days. He would appear at meal times, sitting in
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