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CHAPTER 47: Two Weeks of Silence

作者: Eleanor Vance
last update 公開日: 2026-03-16 14:01:08

**SLOANE**

"You need to eat something."

Maya stood in my doorway. Holding a bag from the Thai place down the street. The smell made my stomach turn.

"I'm not hungry."

"You haven't been hungry in two weeks. Eat anyway."

She pushed past me. Set the bag on my counter. Started unpacking containers like she owned the place.

Pad Thai. Spring rolls. Tom Yum soup.

I sat on the couch. Stared at the wall.

His golf clubs were still in the corner. Right where he'd left them three weeks ago. Before Milwauke
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