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CHAPTER 48: THE PLAN

Autor: Alison Hart
last update Data de publicação: 2026-09-02 20:33:48

COLE

We spent three days staring at Aiden's empty house, and by the end of it I knew why he'd been able to stay sane after twenty-two years of this. Whatever patience it took to do what he was doing had a price, and it was one he'd only paid for once.

Noah was following Elder Okafor's every move, as he did for everyone, recording the relevant information on a growing spreadsheet on his laptop that detailed where she was at any given time of the day and told us very little at all. Council buildi
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