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Chapter 40

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Dani POV

The house was quiet after Wren left.

I sat at the counter for another minute, finishing what was left on my plate. The way she’d said ‘I’ll do it’ across the counter like she was placing something down carefully and watching to see if I’d handle it right.

I rinsed my plate and went upstairs.

Ross’s door was half-open. I knocked on the frame.

He was sitting on the edge of his bed, elbows on his knees, staring at the middle distance with an expression I couldn’t read.

“You have class tod
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