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Chapter 54 — Slim Chances

Author: Billie Patsy
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-10-16 21:27:41

Sable’s POV

I was genuinely startled when Alden’s eyes stayed open and focused.

Not because I did not want him awake.

For days I had watched those monitors, adjusted lines, spoken into the quiet of his room as if the sound of a normal voice might remind his body how to return.

I had wanted this exact thing — the lids lifting, the gaze finding a face, the proof that the machines were not the only ones keeping time.

But the timing was wrong. Isolde’s warning still hung in the air like perfum
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