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TWENTY

Author: Gentle Roses
last update publish date: 2026-05-31 19:00:32

Rafael’s POV

Avoiding Nora turned out to be far more difficult than facing an army.

The realization irritated me sometime around midmorning while I sat through my third meeting of the day pretending to pay attention to discussions about border security. I couldn't focus because my attention drifted, my mind returned to the same thing. Nora.

The memory of last night replayed endlessly in my head no matter how many times I tried to focus on something else. The way she had looked at me after the k
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