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Chapter 52: Stranger
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 52: Stranger
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"He stopped sleeping," she said quietly."Three years ago. After Elena." She didn't look at Liora. "I watched it take him apart. Quietly. The way things take Voss men apart. From the inside where nobody can see it until it's already done enough damage."Liora said nothing."Then three months ago," Margaret said. "He stopped looking like a man being taken apart." She paused. "I noticed. I didn't ask."She finally looked at Liora."I'm asking now," she said.Liora met her gaze.Held it."He started sleeping," she said simply.Margaret looked at her for a long moment."Because of you," she said."Yes.""How."Liora thought about V7 and the compound and the plan and the lab three blocks from the bookstore and the filing cabinet with the worn label.She thought about what was true underneath all of that."I was there," she said. "Every night. I was just there."Margaret looked at her.At the face that wasn't giving her everything and wasn't pretending to."That's not the whole answer," Mar
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