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Chapter 30: What’s Real Between Us

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I sat alone in the quiet of my room, the weight of that empty holding room still pressing against my chest hours later.

A soft knock interrupted the silence.

“It’s me,” Asher said through the door.

“Come in.”

He stepped inside, none of his usual easy confidence in the way he moved tonight, no careful posture, no practiced steadiness. Just him, tired and worn the same way I felt.

“I couldn’t sleep either,” he said.

“Neither could I.”

“Mind if I sit?”

“Please.”

He sat down across from me, close e
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