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56: Small things

Author: Peace C
last update publish date: 2026-09-15 23:27:18

Diana's POV

I woke at three in the morning with my heart racing and the taste of copper in my mouth and the blanket pulled up to my chin by hands that weren't mine.

The tea was gone. I'd finished it in the dark. The cup sat on the nightstand, empty, the honey dried in a thin ring at the bottom. I looked at it for a long time before I got up, because looking at it was easier than thinking about the man who'd made it, and thinking about the man who'd made it was the kind of road I didn't have a m
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