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SEVENTEEN - PROTECTION

作者: Dirty Diana
last update 公開日: 2026-07-24 07:28:33

Sasha orders a black coffee with oat milk and no sugar.

I know because I’ve been sitting across from her for seven minutes watching her interact with the barista with the easy, practiced warmth of a woman whose job requires being likeable to strangers, and I see that she truly has been doing it long enough that the performance has fused with the personality until neither she nor the barista can tell the difference.

We’re at a coffee shop in a neighbourhood where neither of us lives because the
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