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Chapter 53 — Where the Heartbeats Resume

Author: Déesse
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LYRA

Light seeps through the closed slats of the blinds, tracing pale lines on my rumpled sheets.

I am awake, for a long time now.

I haven't really slept, to be honest.

I have floated between fragments of dreams too vivid and memories I thought I had put away for good.

I wonder why I still think of him... my God... Alexandre, why did it have to be you? You, the forbidden fruit, because... you are Cassandre's fiancé and she is pregnant with you; I cannot separate you. Despite what I feel for you... I must hide it... I don't want to be a homewrecker.

My throat is dry, my stomach empty.

But it burns elsewhere. Where emotions reside when they have no place.

I slowly turn my head on the pillow, as if each movement might break me.

Everything is calm, too calm. The kind of morning where silence presses on the sore spots. I think of my ex; I don’t know why I think of him, he doesn’t deserve it. He doesn’t deserve any of my thoughts.

I see his gaze again, and it still haunts me.

It wasn’t ange
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