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Chapter 10: The Human

Author: Jupiter
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-10-21 19:56:02

He backed off like I was on fire. I've been called a lot of things. Never a house fire.

I didn't examine the sting of that too closely, mostly because examining it meant admitting I'd wanted the kiss too, and admitting that felt like handing over a piece of leverage I couldn't afford to lose in a world where I still didn't fully understand the rules. So I did what I always did when a feeling got too big to look at directly: I buried it in work.

It was easier than it should have been. There was
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