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Chapter 87: The Laughter Faded

Author: Nancy's Best
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-28 05:43:00

STEPHEN’S POV:

I didn’t sleep, not even for a second.

At first, it was just noise like muffled laughter, the creak of the door, the low murmur of voices drifting down the hallway. I’d rolled over in bed, pressing my face into the pillow, telling myself to ignore it.

Hayden bringing a girl back wasn’t new.

It shouldn’t have mattered but then the sounds changed.

The laughter faded into something else. The kind of sounds you couldn’t mistake, no matter how hard you tried.

My jaw tightened as I sta
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Priyanka
type mistake perhaps you need to add more word or dialogue*
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Priyanka
feel like I read it before like cp 72,cp 28 or something like that i mean the story didn't move forward.they did things and boom the next day one of them, denial mode on it was a mistake and blah blah, pairhaps you need to add more word or dialogue this is all repeated way too much repeated ..!
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