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Chapter 16

Author: Ummi Salmat
last update publish date: 2026-06-03 00:56:57

TOO CLOSE TO TURN BACK

Helen didn’t ask another question after that.

Not because she wasn’t curious.

Because she saw the shift in him immediately.

The second the words left his mouth — She used to be — something distant entered his eyes, quiet and controlled, like a man realizing he had already revealed more than he intended to.

He looked away first.

Back toward the city, toward the million lit windows and the lives happening inside them — all those people with their ordinary evenings, their u
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