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Chapter 273: The Bare Truth

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last update تاريخ النشر: 2026-05-14 10:43:06

[Alice's POV]

"I love you, Alice. I have loved you since I was twenty-two years old and you were a stranger sitting on a crate of vegetables in a frozen alley, and I love you now, when you're eight months pregnant with another man's child and sitting in a chair that's two meters away from me, and I will probably love you when I'm eighty years old and can't remember my own name. That's not a choice. That's not a strategy. That's just what's true."

The silence that followed was different from any
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