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Chapter 154: A weakness

Autor: Black sweet
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— Xander —

I returned before sunset.

Not because I was done—but because I was finished killing conversations that should never have existed in the first place.

The house looked the same from the outside. White stone. Order. Silence trained into obedience. It always did. That was the lie of it. A place could look calm while rot crept through its halls.

I handed my coat to the first man I passed and didn’t break stride.

“She’s inside?” I asked.

“Yes, Don.”

I didn’t need to ask who.

I found her in the west corridor, pretending to examine a painting that had been there longer than either of us. She heard me before she saw me. Her shoulders tensed. A reflex she hadn’t learned here.

When she turned, she didn’t meet my eyes right away.

That was the first sign.

The second was how her hand curled slightly inward at her side, as if she’d forgotten it was there. The third was the faint flush along her cheekbone—too sharp to be embarrassment, too uneven to be coincidence.

I stopped three feet in
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