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Chapter 104 - Cole Sutcliffe

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Cole Sutcliffe

The study smells like paper and stale coffee and something metallic I can’t name. It’s the same room where I drew up renovation budgets and investor decks, where I tried to prove to myself I was still a man with direction. Now it’s become a bunker. The curtains stay half drawn. The lamp stays on even in daylight. My phone sits on the desk like a detonator, silent, waiting to ruin me.

Aiden lies in the bassinet beside my chair, swaddled so snugly he looks like a sm

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