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Chapter 116

作者: Joanne Woods
last update publish date: 2026-05-12 09:58:33

Evelyn's POV

“I just moved in,” I said at last, finally forcing myself to speak before the silence turned unbearable, then awkwardly held the pudding out toward him a little more. “I originally made this for… the neighbor across the hall.”

The sentence sounded increasingly stupid the longer it hung there between us.

Julian lowered his eyes to the glass bowl in my hands before finally taking it from me.

“Thank you,” he said calmly. “As it happens, the neighbor across the hall is me.”

Only then d
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