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CHAPTER 22 - THE TRUTH DAMIAN WAS NEVER READY FOR

Author: L.NOCTURE
last update publish date: 2026-06-27 16:29:26

Rain started sometime after midnight.

Soft at first.

Then heavier against the windows of Adrian’s countryside house.

Amelia couldn’t sleep again.

No matter how exhausted she felt physically, her mind refused to rest.

Too many things had changed too quickly.

Every time she closed her eyes, she saw different versions of Damian.

Cold Damian at the gala.

Quiet Damian in the stairwell.

Broken Damian outside the building.

And somehow those versions of him kept colliding painfully inside her chest.

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