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Chapter 23
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2026-05-26 01:11:00Two hours later, slightly delirious from Kate’s music, we arrived at the lake house.
She was clearly having the time of her life in a parallel universe where she sang on stage while the guitarist smiled at her every ten seconds. I knew this because she narrated it out loud, choreography included. Neither Jacob nor I had the heart to tell her she was off-key and that her music had already made us dizzy. We unloaded the cars and began organizing inside. The three
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“Good afternoon, Jacob,” Paul said from the doorway, holding a cap in his hands as if it were a useless extension of his guilt. His fingers fidgeted, his voice fragile in a way that inspired not tenderness, but rejection. “I’m sorry to come without notice, but… I’d like to speak with Camila, please.”The silence that followed was dense—almost physical.Jacob took a slow breath, so controlled that I could feel the effort it took for him not to react the way his body wanted to. There was something fierce in him, a righteous violence held back only because I was there.“You can’t be here, Paul,” he said at last, without raising his voice or hesitating. “Camila doesn’t want to see you.”The look he gave him didn’t need volume or threats. It was a sentence.His knuckles, white against the doorfr
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