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Chapter 194 - To Feel Without Touch

Penulis: Kristy Pearson
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-15 11:13:58

(Adelaide & Caelum)

For a suspended moment, Adelaide stood perfectly still. Every muscle strung tight, every nerve in her body lit and trembling. His words still reverberated inside her, a second pulse thrumming through bone and blood. The air between them thinned, drawn taut as wire by everything spoken and everything still unsaid, a tension so sharp it felt like it might slice straight through her.

Her breath dragged slow and deeply, each inhale pulling the chamber’s heat into her chest u
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