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Chapter 103 — Sebastian Finds Out

Penulis: Connie Clarke
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-10-12 23:32:51

I told him about the nine days on the Saturday after I came back from London, which was the morning after the conversation in the study where I had read him the first line and he had said start there, and the reason I told him about the nine days on the Saturday rather than the Thursday when I came back was that on Thursday I was inside the momentum of the London account and the proposal and the first line and the second line and the conversation about what came next, and on Saturday the moment
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    I told him about the nine days on the Saturday after I came back from London, which was the morning after the conversation in the study where I had read him the first line and he had said start there, and the reason I told him about the nine days on the Saturday rather than the Thursday when I came back was that on Thursday I was inside the momentum of the London account and the proposal and the first line and the second line and the conversation about what came next, and on Saturday the momentum had settled and what remained was the specific thing I had not said, which was: I kept this from you for nine days and I need to tell you why directly rather than leaving you to conclude it was just the reading process.He was in the kitchen making coffee, which was a Saturday habit now — Reed's day off, Sebastian's coffee, considerably better than fine — and I came in and sat at the table and said: "I want to say something about the nine days."He said: "You already explained the nine days."

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