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Eighteen

Penulis: Luxie
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-01-20 17:53:28
Lisa POV

The days crawled by.

I stayed indoors and avoided Alpha Cameron. Not that it required effort. He seemed to have forgotten I existed.

The mansion was large enough that I could spend entire days in my room without crossing paths with anyone. Breakfast appeared outside my door each morning. Lunch arrived at noon. Dinner at six.

The servants had started looking at me with curiosity, the kind people use when they’re trying to place someone who doesn’t belong.

One of them, a young woman about
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  • TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS    Four hundred and thirty-three

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