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0094: Left Shoulder Full Of Guilt

Penulis: FlyingDove
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-08 05:23:27
BENJAMIN’S POV

"You're still here," Morwen said.

The courier had been gone ten minutes. The authorization was still there on the clipboard, signed, where I'd left it, and the pen lay beside it, forgotten — uncapped, drying out, where neither of us had touched it.

"I wanted to see it done right."

"The shipment was fine. You're hovering."

"I'm not hovering."

She closed one patient file and opened another. Outside, thunder rolled low across a grey morning. Then her hands stopped on the file. She st
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