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Chapter 29: What Gemma Knows

作者: Agatha Ikpasa
last update 公開日: 2026-07-27 07:34:24

Gemma POV

I started recording him without deciding to. The first one happened by accident, my phone already open to voice memos from a note I had been dictating to myself about the nursery, sitting on the kitchen counter when Callum came home from the Reyes meeting in a fury I had never seen from him before. I did not think to stop the recording. I just stood very still and let it run, some instinct older than thought telling me I might need proof one day of what actually happened in this house
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