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Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Three: October
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2026-09-21 17:01:16
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The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Three: October
Selene's POVOctober arrives.The first morning of October I stand at the study window with my coffee and I look at the mountains and I understand something I have been approaching for months without quite arriving at.The year is not over.This is what I understand.The year that began in a clearing in late October last year — the year of the rejection and the hearing and the records and the archives and everything that came between — is not finished yet. It will not be finished until the anniversary passes. Until the specific day comes around again and I stand inside it and it is different from what it was.Four weeks.Four weeks until the anniversary of the clearing.I drink my coffee.I look at the mountains.I think about what I want the anniversary to be.Not a gathering. The gathering was last Friday and it was right for what it was. The anniversary is something smaller. More specific. The thing between the clearing and whoever I am now, measured in one year's distance.I know
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