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Chapter Forty Seven

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~Caden's POV~

He drives south through the morning without the radio on.

Three hours is long enough to think and short enough that the thinking does not resolve into anything that resembles a conclusion. He has not tried to make it resolve. Rhys told him not to prepare a speech and the instruction was correct, and the corollary of not preparing a speech is not filling the three hours with the mental equivalent of one. He drives. The road moves. The Cresthaven treeline thins into the neutral terr
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