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~ 30: Silverleaf Pack

Penulis: Grace Grandi
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-08-19 11:06:51

~ 30 ~

~ Mia ~

Over the next few days, a quiet routine formed between Aron and me.

What had started as a brief consultation over her grandfather's neurological scans quickly bloomed into an easy, comfortable friendship.

Aron was sharp, eager to learn, and possessed none of the stiff snobbishness that colored so much of East Lake’s medical establishment.

Every afternoon around one, she would wait by the clinical laboratory doors with two takeaway cups from the campus café, coaxing me away from
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