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Chapter 133-The Cookie

Author: AuroraDreamer
last update publish date: 2026-06-02 00:34:21

Leander POV

My mom didn't tell my dad that Avelin and Shen were coming over.

I found out four minutes before it mattered. She casually mentioned it on the phone while I was helping Avelin find Shen's shoe. The shoe had somehow fallen behind the radiator in the void where small things go to get lost.

"I didn't tell your dad you were coming," she said. She had a voice, like a woman who had spent thirty years dealing with my dad and had learned how to survive. "He needs to meet you without having
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