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Chapter 162: The Body Mutiny

作者: Lois
last update publish date: 2026-04-20 07:30:47

Bella POV

Three months in, and my body declared war on everything I had ever loved. It started with Caleb's cologne.

I had always loved that scent — I had never once complained about it in all the months we had spent carefully, cautiously rebuilding what existed between us.

But on a Wednesday morning in early spring, I walked into the bedroom where he was getting dressed for a board meeting and the smell hit me like a wall.

"Stop," I said.

He turned, one cufflink in, watching me with the parti
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