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Chapter 195: Strawberries Are Red

作者: Anney GW
last update 公開日: 2026-03-22 00:56:24

[Alice's POV]

The night that David left, I stood in the living room and, by the faint light filtering in from the streetlamp down on the street, took a slow look around my house. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen it, but it felt as though I’d never seen it like this before.

The treehouse.

The first thing I saw when we found this place was the treehouse in the garden. It was perched in the corner of the yard on an old oak tree, built with pressure-treated pine boards. The roof was painted sky bl
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