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#21: Silent Treatment

작가: Aria Steele
last update 게시일: 2026-05-07 20:24:59

Breakfast the next morning is a performance I was not given a script for.

Eli sitting at his usual end of the table, eating his usual breakfast, and responding to the things said to him with the pleasant, contained efficiency of a man doing his job and nothing else.

He doesn’t look at me any differently than he looks at the orange juice. When I come in and say good morning to the table, his eyes move to me for exactly the time it takes to register my presence and then move on.

I sit down and
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