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Author: Favor V April
last update publish date: 2026-04-24 20:48:30

Julian’s POV

The scent of Katia was still a ghost in my study, a haunting mixture of jasmine, expensive skin, and that underlying hint of ozone that seemed to follow her everywhere. Even after a shower, even after scrubbing the physical memory of her from my skin, I could swear the fragrance had embedded itself into the very pores of my hands. I sat in my high-backed leather chair, the only light in the room coming from the three massive monitors displaying encrypted telemetry data and the flic
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