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Chapter 11

Author: Silverfox
last update publish date: 2026-04-19 10:30:42

~~Oriana~~

I barely slept.

I had been staring at the ceiling since about two in the morning, listening to the waters outside and having a very firm internal argument with myself about a man I had no business thinking about as much as I currently was.

It wasn’t even like anything had happened.

That was the most frustrating part.

Nothing had happened. We had sat on the same sofa. He had said a few words in that low quiet voice of his.

I had walked out before anything could develop into anything
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