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I'M ASKING YOU TO STOP HOLDING BACK

Author: Ray Nhedicta
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Chapter 62

Alex

I was seeing what I wanted to see, projecting a dead love onto a living stranger, refusing to accept that some people really were gone forever.

"I'll take you back today," I said over breakfast, keeping my voice carefully neutral. "I promised you seven days, but six is enough. I can see this isn't working."

She looked up from her barely touched food, something complicated flickering across her face. "Are you sure? We still have one more day."

"What's one more day going to prove?" I asked, more sharply than intended. "You don't remember, Daisy. After six days of trying, of me telling you every story I can think of, showing you every place we shared—you still don't remember anything. Because you're not her. You were never her."

"Alex..."

"I was wrong," I cut her off, standing abruptly. The admission tasted like poison, but it needed to be said. "I was desperate and grieving and I saw what I wanted to see instead of what was actually there. You're Daisy, Adrian's betrothe
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