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Chapter 89: Jealous Caleb

作者: Lois
last update 公開日: 2026-03-03 00:12:33

Caleb POV

I didn't sleep.

I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, smelling her perfume on my sheets, feeling the ghost of her touch on my skin, replaying her words over and over.

"It was fun, That's all it can be."

Fun. She'd reduced the most intense, soul-destroying experience of my life to fun.

I'd poured everything into making love to her—years of longing, regret, desperate need. I'd worshipped her body, made her scream my name, held her like she was precious. And she'd dismissed it as a casual
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