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Chapter 64:The Morning After

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Maya woke to the soft weight of Noah’s arm across her waist and the unfamiliar, perfect knowledge that she was his wife.

For a long moment she did not move. The light through the curtains was the same light that had filled the room for months. The ceiling was the same ceiling. The faint sound of the city outside was the same sound. But the word itself — *wife* — sat in her chest with a quiet finality that rearranged everything around it. She turned the ring on her finger, the new band restin
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