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CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

Penulis: Raven Graye
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Ava:

I shook my head. “I'm not doing this with you.”

Without another word, I marched to the door and pulled it open, just enough to make my intention painfully clear.

“Look, I'm very tired at the moment, and I need to rest.”

I didn’t need to spell it out. She knew what I meant.

She always knew when she was being dismissed and when she’d pushed too far, crossed a line, or walked straight into a wound she pretended she couldn’t see.

Her lips parted, a soft gasp slipping out before she quickly closed her mouth again.

Her eyes flickered toward my bedroom hallway, toward Belle’s room, then back at me. A thousand arguments seemed to rise and die on her tongue all at once.

“Ava…” she tried again gently, “please don’t shut me out. I’m trying to—”

“No.” My voice wasn’t raised, but it felt heavy. “You’re trying to do what he wants. And I’m too tired today to let you drag me into that.”

Her shoulders sagged. For a moment, she looked older, not physically but emotionally, like years of silent bat
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