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039— A TEAR.

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last update วันที่เผยแพร่: 2026-05-11 06:45:05

~SLOANE~

"I can explain—" I took a step forward. "Wait. Anya—"

She didn't wait.

She turned and walked and I stood there watching her go and the rink noise swallowed her up and she was gone before I'd finished the sentence.

I stood there.

Then I kicked the nearest thing — a water bottle someone had left against the boards — and it skidded across the ice and hit the far barrier and the sound of it was deeply unsatisfying.

"What," I said, to nobody. To the rink. To the specific ve
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