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Chapter 12: Nathan’s Effect

Penulis: Rovelt Vell
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-09-04 00:09:39

Viene’s POV

Nathan found me on the terrace an hour before dawn.

I hadn’t been able to sleep. Not after the voice, not after the woman who wouldn’t stop shaking, not after watching Neil’s face change while reading something he wouldn’t show me. I’d come outside because the walls of my room felt like they were listening too.

“You should be resting,” he said.

“So should you.”

He didn’t argue that. He just crossed the terrace and stood beside me at the railing, close enough that I felt the ch
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