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Chapter 118

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-07-03 19:21:33

Ember's POV

He walked me back to the clinic.

Not holding my arm — just beside me, close enough that if I slowed he slowed, the quiet accompaniment of someone who had decided they were not leaving and had communicated that without making it a discussion.

At the door he stopped.

"One more thing," he said.

I turned.

"If you tell anyone what I told you," he said, "I will be in real danger." He said it without dramatics — plainly, the way he stated facts that were simply true. "Not abstract danger.
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