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Chapter 127: After

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The morning after Gareth signed the submission document, Jasmina slept until eight.

Not because she'd decided to. Her body just didn't wake her. Kira slept too, which almost never happened past six, and Damoew was already up and gone when she opened her eyes. The compound outside the window sounded normal. Not quiet-normal, not after-battle-normal. Just normal, the everyday hum of people going about things, which was its own kind of strange after the weeks they'd had.

She lay there for a moment
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