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Chapter 65 - Living Without an Audience

Author: HG
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-01-24 22:13:38

The next morning, Serena woke before the alarm she no longer set.

It wasn’t urgency that pulled her from sleep, it was awareness. The quiet kind. The kind that didn’t demand action, only acknowledgment. She lay still for a moment, listening to the building settle, to footsteps somewhere below, to the ordinary proof that life was continuing in ways that had nothing to do with her.

She smiled into the pillow. She spent the morning alone.

Ethan had meetings. The kitchen was clean. The day was hers
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