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Chapter 146: The Fracture

Author: Anney GW
last update publish date: 2026-02-28 10:12:01

[Alice's POV]

The silence that fell over the room was absolute.

It wasn't a peaceful silence. It was heavy, charged, like the air before a thunderstorm. I stood there on the plush pedestal, feeling ridiculously exposed. The lights were too bright, highlighting every flaw, every hollowed-out curve of my body.

Adam was standing near a rack of white gowns. He had been looking at his phone, bored, but the second the curtain opened, he looked up.

Our eyes met.

I saw it instantly — the way his breath
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