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Chapter 36: Platinum doll

Author: Black sweet
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-10-10 20:30:55

~ Veronica ~

The scent of bergamot and steam should’ve relaxed me, but it never did. I’ve always found spas too performative, people pretending to be reborn while lying half-dead on heated stones.

The masseuse’s hands pressed down between my shoulders, slow and rhythmic. The oils were warm, tracing over my spine, seeping into skin like secrets I didn’t ask to hear. Everything here was soft from the white towels folded like clouds to the low hum of water running in some distant basin, the faint
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