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Chapter 44 – No More Distance

Author: B.S. Turaki
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-23 04:32:26
Lyra's POV

The silence didn’t break.

It stretched.

Tight.

Unforgiving.

Heavy with everything neither of us had said.

The training grounds were still recovering—cracked stone, lingering magic in the air, the faint echo of what had almost happened—but none of that mattered.

Not anymore.

Not compared to this.

To him.

To the way he was looking at me.

Like I was something he was done losing.

“We’re past that.”

My own words lingered between us, sharper now than when I had sai
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