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CLOSER TO THE END

作者: LUNA INK
last update 最終更新日: 2025-12-03 00:08:22

AARON’S POV

My phone buzzed on the table. I assumed it would be another message from Zoey asking for my approval on another overpriced napkin,but to my surprise it was Ethan.

He hadn't reached out since he left, and the text was quite simple and plain

Ethan; “Connor might leave today, so I'll be home latest tomorrow”

Which meant that, assuming everything went right, assuming nothing pulled him behind, he would probably be home tomorrow.

My hands hovered thinking of a reply, but what do you say after you made someone cry in the parking lot ?

Tomorrow, he'd be home.

The thought managed to loosen my chest, but only a little. Because the rest of it-the weight that had been glued to my ribs these past four days-remained, I tried to ignore the light up feeling I got at the sound of Ethan calling this place his home.

And he had been silent for four days.

Four days of silence, excluding the single text Ethan just sent me. Four days of replaying every moment, every threat, every mistake.

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