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Echoes of Him

Author: Ishq
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-21 03:54:37

The walls of the villa house felt colder today. Though not physically, but emotionally. Like grief had settled into the plaster and paint making two parents miserable.

Isla’s fingers trailed along the edge of the shelf in the small reading room just beside the staircase. The room smelled of old paper and something faintly like citrus, probably the cleaner they used here. She wasn’t even looking for anything in particular. Just… something that might make her feel better.

A sound behind Lucian stepped in. He didn’t say anything. They had learned to exist in silence, their pain no longer needing the formality of small talk.

She looked at the drawer where she had kept some.projects or things made by Aaric. Lucian had gone to great lengths to find that stuff just to make Isla smile. She opened the drawer. It was another box of school crafts. She looked at it and then her hands froze.

Inside the drawer was a crumpled piece of colored paper in blue. It was folded in half like a card. Her br
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