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Chapter 75: Petra's Second Visit

Auteur: Roxy Hart
last update Date de publication: 2026-04-01 18:12:49

I cooked.

Petra had not expected this. She stood in the doorway of my flat with her canvas bag and looked at the table set for two and the smell of something on the stove and said nothing for a moment, which I was beginning to understand was what she did when something arrived that she had not been prepared for.

"You cook," she said.

"Yes," I said. "Sit down."

She sat. She put the canvas bag on the floor beside her chair rather than on the table, which told me she had not brought documents toni
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