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Chapter 53: The Other Name

Author: Devip
last update publish date: 2026-05-01 16:51:43

MILO

I had been Caden's Beta for six years and in that time I had developed a reliable working knowledge of the difference between a situation that was a problem and a situation that had become inevitable.

Problems could be addressed. Inevitabilities could be managed.

Sera was no longer a problem.

I was not ready to call her something else yet. I was Milo and Milo did not revise his assessments quickly or without sufficient evidence. But I was also Milo who had watched her knock on a door
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