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Chapter 12

作者: Ayla Thorne
last update 公開日: 2026-08-17 16:51:26

For several seconds, I couldn't breathe.

Someone had threatened Ethan.

Because of me.

I stared at him, waiting for him to say it was some terrible joke.

He didn't.

“Who?” I asked again.

Ethan looked away.

“I can't.”

My heart sank.

“You brought me here to tell me the truth, and now you're saying you can't?”

“It's not that simple.”

“Then make it simple.”

Jake stepped forward.

“Ethan, you need to tell her.”

Ethan looked at him.

“You don't understand what you're asking me to do.”

“Yes, I do.”

“No,
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