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Chapter 53

Author: Quillian Dark
last update publish date: 2026-04-27 23:44:23

The café was too calm for how loud my head was.

Amanda was talking about something—I caught pieces of it, something about a client, a ridiculous meeting, a joke she clearly expected me to laugh at—but the words slid past me without sticking.

I sat across from her, stirring my drink long after the sugar had dissolved, the spoon clinking softly against the glass in a rhythm that didn’t match anything except the tension sitting under my skin. My fingers tapped against the table between stirs, res
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