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chapter 13: The Man who Remembered

Penulis: Noura writes
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-02-20 21:44:54

After Rachel Cohen signed off, Sienna went to lie down.

Pregnancy exhaustion, she said. But I saw the grief in her eyes when she mentioned Daniel's files.

Dante disappeared to check security feeds.

And suddenly it was just me and Marcus in his kitchen. City lights glittering through the windows. Three years of unspoken things hanging between us.

He was washing dishes. I picked up a towel to dry.

Domestic. Normal.

Except nothing about this was normal.

The silence was comfortable at first. Just t
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