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Chapter 261: Stuck
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2026-03-30 20:02:47
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~ Avelyn ~The question hung in the air longer than it should have.It wasn’t loud or aggressive. But heavy enough that it pressed against my chest, forcing my lungs to work harder just to draw in a breath.I didn’t answer immediately.I couldn’t.Because in that single moment, standing there with the door still half-open behind me and the early morning silence wrapping around us, I realized something I hadn’t prepared for.Kyle wasn’t supposed to be here.Not now.Not after everything.My fingers tightened slightly around the strap of my bag as I stepped fully into the room, closing the door behind me with more care than necessary, as if the quietness of it could somehow soften what was about to unfold.“I had to step out,” I said finally, my voice steady in a way I didn’t quite feel. “Something came up.”It sounded weak the moment it left my lips.I knew it.And from the way Kyle’s eyes darkened almost instantly, I knew he did too.“Step out,” he repeated, slower this time, like he
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~ Avelyn ~Sleep didn’t come.It lingered at the edge of my mind, close enough to feel like a promise, but never close enough to take me under. Every time I closed my eyes, something pulled me back up again—memories, voices, the steady echo of that flatline that still hadn’t left my ears.So I gave up trying.I lay there instead, staring at the ceiling of the hotel room, my body heavy and exhausted, but my mind… strangely awake. Too awake.My eyes burned from crying, swollen and sore, but the tears had stopped. There was nothing left to cry out, at least not for now. Just this hollow, aching quiet that settled deep in my chest.It felt… different. Not lighter.Only… clearer.A slow breath slipped out of me as I turned slightly on the bed, pulling the thin blanket closer around my body. The room was cold, but I barely felt it.What I felt instead was something far more unsettling.Understanding.It was almost ironic.The one thing I had been running from—him—was the very thing that pus
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~ Avelyn ~The taxi door clicked shut behind me, but I didn’t move right away.For a moment, I just stood there with my hand still resting on the handle, my legs refusing to cooperate, my chest rising and falling like I had run a mile instead of sitting through a silent ride. The driver said something—maybe asking if I was okay, maybe telling me to be careful—but the words didn’t register.Because I already knew where I was.I didn’t need to look up and I didn’t need to read the sign.My feet remembered before my mind could catch up.And when I finally lifted my gaze, the rows of headstones stretched out in front of me like a quiet accusation, like a place that had been waiting… patiently… for me to return.The air felt different here like the world had decided to hold its breath.I swallowed, my throat tight, and forced myself to move. One step. Then another. Gravel crunched faintly under my shoes, each sound too loud in the silence, each step heavier than the last.I told myself I w
Switched at the Mafia Auction Chapter 261: Stuck
~ Avelyn ~I nodded once, the motion small, almost automatic, before turning back toward the door they had come from. I could feel their eyes on my back as I moved, could feel the weight of everything we hadn’t said pressing into the space between us.But none of it mattered.Not anymore, certainly not right now.My hand found the door before I could think too much about it, my fingers wrapping around the handle as a strange, unfamiliar hesitation settled in my chest.This was it.Everything I had carried.Everything I had rehearsed.Everything I had buried and built up and held onto—It was all on the other side of this door. I exhaled slowly and pushed it open.The room was quiet but loud in my ears The steady sound of a monitor filled the space, rhythmic, unchanging, almost detached from everything else. For a moment, I didn’t step in. I just stood there, my eyes adjusting, my breath catching somewhere between my chest and my throat.And then I saw him.Whatever I had expected—It
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~ Avelyn ~By the time I parted ways with Ariana, the sky had already deepened into night, but something in me refused to rest.It wasn’t exhaustion.It was… unfinished things.The kind that don’t let you sleep no matter how tired your body is.So instead of going anywhere familiar, I checked into a hotel on the other side of the city, somewhere quiet, somewhere that didn’t hold memories I wasn’t ready to face yet. The room was neat, impersonal, the kind that didn’t ask questions. I dropped my bag by the door and sat at the edge of the bed for a long moment, staring at nothing.My mind wasn’t empty.It was quite the opposite, too full but somehow still focused on one thing.There was something I needed to do before I walked into that hospital.Something I couldn’t ignore.The next morning came quicker than I expected. I moved through it without thinking too much, like if I slowed down, I might start questioning everything again. After a brief stop at the bank, I slid the card into my
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~ Avelyn ~We didn’t leave each other after the gates.That was the strange part.After everything, the distance, the silence, the damage. I thought there would be a pause. A moment where we’d run out of things to say and awkwardly part ways like strangers trying to pretend they used to be something more.But it didn’t happen.We ended up in a café not too far from the rehab center, sitting across from each other with two untouched drinks between us. The place wasn’t crowded, just a low hum of conversations and the occasional clink of cups, but even that felt distant compared to the way my attention stayed fixed on her.Ariana hadn’t changed in the obvious ways people expect.She still tilted her head slightly when she listened. Still traced the rim of her cup absentmindedly when she was thinking. Still looked at me like she was trying to read between the lines of everything I didn’t say.But there was something softer now. Something… unguarded.“I didn’t think you’d actually come,”
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