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Home, If You Stay

Author: Cleo Atree
last update publish date: 2026-10-02 14:01:07

“Haa… let it go,” she muttered under her breath.

Her expression stayed composed, too composed. Unreadable. As if every whispered rumor, every sidelong glance, slid off her like water off glass. She moved forward with measured steps, controlled, unbothered or so it seemed.

But the whispers trailed her anyway.

She halted abruptly.

Her hand shot out, signaling an oncoming car to pass and in that same instant, a firm grip closed around her other wrist.

Her head snapped sideways.

Calvin.

“Cal,” she
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  • THE COLD-HEARTED CEO'S REBORN LOVER    Home, If You Stay

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