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Chapter 6: Watching From the Doorway

작가: T.I Rivers
last update 게시일: 2026-09-04 16:09:44

ADRIEN’S POV

I hadn't meant to follow her.

I told myself, walking the corridor a full minute behind her, that I was only checking on the children, a habit left over from years of being the only parent who reliably did and that her presence in that wing was simply a coincidence I happened to be walking into. It wasn't entirely a lie. It also wasn't entirely the truth, and I've never had much patience for either version of myself pretending otherwise.

I found her before I reached the sunroom. Not
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