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What I Can't Unsee

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Chapter 90 — What I Can’t Unsee

Ryder's pov

I couldn’t stop replaying the scene in my head. The way Ollie had looked at me before he turned and walked away, the tremor in his voice when he said I’d never understand. He was wrong. I wanted to understand, but I didn’t know how to reach him without breaking something fragile between us.

The days that followed were a blur of frustration and silence. He avoided me like I was the one who’d done something wrong, and maybe I had. Maybe following him that night had crossed a line, but how could I not? Something about the way he’d been moving through the world, tired, distant, weighed down, had made it impossible to look away.

Now I couldn’t unsee what I saw. The alley, the dim light, the figure of him standing there with his hoodie pulled up, shoulders tense, exchanging words with a stranger who looked twice his age. I didn’t hear everything, but I heard enough. And when he turned and saw me at the end of the street, his face went pale. That
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