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CHAPTER 42

作者: Writing Prowess
last update 最終更新日: 2025-04-16 16:29:10

THE LINES WE DRAW

Ivy’s POV

The room was dark, lit only by the faint silver of moonlight peeking through the blinds. The sheets tangled around my bare legs, still warm from the heat we’d created. My breathing was finally steady, but my heart… my heart was a mess of contradictions.

Gabe lay beside me, his arm draped across my waist. He traced slow circles against my skin, the silence between us soft and heavy.

“I missed this,” he whispered, lips brushing the curve of my shoulder. “You. Us.”

I closed my eyes. Trying to embrace this moment. To forget every other thing. I wanted to say it back.

I wanted to mean it. But every time I tried, Rowan’s face pushed through my thoughts and messed everything up.

“Tell me something real, Ivy,” Gabe murmured, lifting himself to lean over me, his fingers brushing a strand of hair from my face. “Now that all this mess with Ethan and Bella is over… what happens next?”

I turned to look at him. His eyes were still that same soulful brown—earnes
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