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Chapter 23 – The Name They Shouldn’t Know

مؤلف: MEIRA
last update تاريخ النشر: 2026-04-25 03:54:16

Ariana’s POV

The letter didn’t leave my hands immediately.

Even after I finished reading it—

Even after the words had already settled into something cold and heavy inside my chest—

I still held onto it.

Like letting go would somehow make it more real.

⸻

Stop looking for me.

You were never meant to find me.

Next time, I won’t run.

⸻

The words didn’t sound like fear.

They didn’t sound like someone in danger.

They sounded—

Certain.

⸻

And that frightened me more than anything else.

⸻

“She wrote it,
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