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Chapter Eighty-Five  The Shadow Test

作者: Jennie N
last update 公開日: 2025-12-17 23:24:34

Antonioni's POV

She was warm against me when I woke, her back pressed to my chest, my arm draped heavily around her waist. The heat of her body seeped into mine.

I didn’t open my eyes. I didn’t need to. I could feel her. Small, soft. Mine.

The faintest shift of her hips told me she was awake now. The way her breath caught, the ache I knew I’d left in her body would remind her of last night.

It had been weeks. Too many damn weeks since we’d had a night like that. The Park had eaten into everythi
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