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Chapter 6: The Voice Beneath the Silence

Author: G. M. Liora
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-28 18:54:42

Bliss didn’t move for a long time.

The storm outside cracked again, this time louder, as if the sky itself was reacting to the tension in the room. Damon hadn’t taken another step forward. He just stood there, shadowed by the dim hallway behind him, his expression unreadable.

Bliss still held the second cassette in her hand.

"Memory."

She turned it over, her fingers brushing the old plastic as if it held something sacred. The silence between them stretched. Her mind spun, caught in a whirlwind of images and unanswered questions. Who was the woman on the tape? Why did she sound like her? Why did her name, Ivana, feel like it belonged just as much as Bliss did?

Damon’s voice broke through the silence.

“You don’t have to listen to that.”

Bliss looked up sharply.

He took a step forward, then paused when he saw her flinch. His jaw tightened.

“I was trying to protect you.”

Her fingers curled around the cassette.

From the beginning, his lies had been polished, dressed in tenderness and half-
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