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Chapter 18: The Morning After

Author: Amira Lights
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-08 22:21:08

She woke up at six.

Not because of the alarm. Her body just stopped sleeping, the way it did when something was wrong. Eyes open. Ceiling. Six oh three.

She lay there.

Everything hurt.

Not badly. Not like injury. More like the specific ache of muscles that had been working all night. Her thighs. Her lower back. The space between her shoulder blades. Her whole body heavy and wrung out in a way that made no sense for a person who had been lying in a bed.

She stared at the ceiling.

And the dream c
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