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Chapter 111: Rebuilding Intimacy

Author: Lois
last update publish date: 2026-03-16 01:26:45

Bella POV

The problem with living with someone you were attracted to was that ordinary things stopped being ordinary.

The way he handed me my coffee in the mornings — remembering before I did that I'd switched to one sugar — became a thing I was aware of.

His habit of working at the dining table in the evenings, jacket off, sleeves rolled to the forearm, became something I had to make a conscious decision not to look at. When he came out of the gym at seven AM damp-haired and half-awake and st
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