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What this is now

Author: Jules Golden
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-04-15 23:15:25

CHAPTER 41

I didn't go to him straight away.

That alone should have told me something.

I sat on the edge of my bed with my phone in hand, and the room was quiet around me. I thought about Caden not calling. Not texting. Not showing up outside the dorm or sending Tyler or doing any of the hundred small vicious things he'd been doing for weeks.

Nothing.

Just silence.

And silence from Caden wasn't peace. It was a held breath before something broke.

Elena knocked and came in without waiting for an
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