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What Kade Knows

Autor: Nicolet Hale
last update Data de publicação: 2026-04-07 20:34:58

I ran into him coming out of the training hall.

Sweaty. Hair damp. Shirt hanging open at the collar. He saw me in the corridor and stopped dead and looked at my face and a grin started building on his that he did not even try to contain.

I kept walking.

"Amara."

"Kade."

"You look different."

"I look exactly the same."

"You really do not." He fell into step beside me without being invited. "You look like someone who had a very good night."

I said nothing.

"A very good night," he said again, slow
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