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Chapter six

Author: Ink Maestro
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-22 02:58:15
Adams’ POV

It’s been a year since Alex left.

Twelve months of peeling myself off the floor, night after night. A year of turning silence into something less suffocating. I never thought I'd come out the other side of that storm. But I did.

Credit goes mostly to Jessica.

“You’re not dying of heartbreak on my watch,” she’d told me as she shoved a mug of hot chocolate into my hands and wrapped Faith, in a blanket burrito next to me on the couch. “You’re pretty... handsome,” she corrected and laughed when I gave her the stink eye.

“You’re smart, and you smell like sandalwood and fresh sin. You’ll survive.”

Jessica was the kind of best friend who didn’t wait for you to ask for help. She just showed up with wine, ice cream, or her grumpy almost-teenager, Faith, who could melt steel with that grumpy stare of hers. “It’s that age that transitions to full blown angst, she’ll be fine,” Jessica had quipped before I got in the matter of Faith’s glare.

Jessica kept me breathing, lau
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