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Chapter 124 Seraphina's Pov

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CHAPTER ONE Built.

The word stayed with me long after Lucian said it.

It remained in the kitchen after we went upstairs. It followed me into the bedroom, into the dark, into the shallow sleep that came in broken pieces and left me more tired than before.

Built. Not borrowed. Not something Kieran could repossess because he had once owned the house where my silence lived.

Built.

The word had weight. A different kind of weight from paper.

Paper threatened. Paper recorded. Paper rearranged pain in
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