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Chapter 5: The First Move

Penulis: ROSY
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-09-04 20:50:23

Emily's Pov

I woke before the sky did, the way I always had in the years when waking up on time meant the difference between eating and not, a habit fifteen years in a house full of other people's money had never managed to soften out of me.

Adrian was still asleep on the sofa, one arm thrown over his eyes, the pillow he'd declared war on the night before finally back beneath his head like it had surrendered sometime after midnight, a truce nobody had bothered to announce. I let myself look at
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