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Chapter 99: Caleb's Control

作者: Lois
last update 公開日: 2026-03-09 00:48:04

Caleb POV

She stayed for two hours.

We ate breakfast at the kitchen island — eggs that didn't burn, toast that I watched with professional vigilance — and talked about nothing important, which turned out to be everything important. Tom's new obsession with a cartoon about engineering dinosaurs. The Singapore expansion timeline. Whether the garden needed lavender along the south border or something taller.

She had opinions about the lavender. Strong ones. I would have agreed to anything she said
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