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Chapter 299: A Person Not A Concept

作者: Anney GW
last update 公開日: 2026-05-26 13:43:22

[Alice's POV]

His voice cracked on the last word. I looked at him, and for a moment, just a moment, I saw the man I had married. Not the stranger he had become, the man who had chosen Lily over me, but the David who had once stood with me in a Paris shop window and noticed what I wanted before I could say it.

That David had been gone for a long time. But here, with a ten-year-old scarf in his hands and tears in his eyes, I could almost see his ghost.

"David," I said gently. "Thank you for the s
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