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CHAPTER 167

Author: Nancy Grey
last update publish date: 2026-01-11 15:34:58

Dahlia’s POV

The moment I stepped out of the basement, it felt wrong.

Like the world had tilted slightly off its axis and never bothered to correct itself.

The door closed behind me with a low, final sound, thick and heavy, and something inside my chest cracked open. It wasn’t just a door shutting. It felt like a sentence being passed. Like I was abandoning him. Like I was walking away from my own heart and locking it in the dark.

Luca’s face burned behind my eyes.

The way his voice had broken
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