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Chapter Forty-Two The Quietness In His Absence And His Caring Sweetness

Penulis: Jennie N
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-11-23 19:33:37
Annabelle’s POV

I didn’t know he was long gone.

Not until long after the silence in our room thickened into something I couldn’t name.

He hadn’t touched me after that last time, after putting the velvet bracelet on my wrist. He just left a pouch on the drawer, packed his things like I wasn’t standing there, and said the most unbothered “I’ll be back” I’d ever heard. Then he walked out of the room we shared.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he was going back upstairs. Maybe to the p
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