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Chapter 142

Author: Kennywrites
last update publish date: 2026-07-30 14:16:05
The room settled into its night quality.

He reached into his jacket. The letters — both of them, the chess one and Victor's, carried together in the inside pocket since the night at the kitchen table when he could not sleep and had taken them out in the dark. He held them. He did not read them.

So
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