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Chapter 42: Explosive Fight

Auteur: Ihechiink
last update Date de publication: 2026-03-18 20:45:35

Elena's POV

I came back at noon.

I had remembered the sketchbook at ten, while I was at the studio working through the second panel of the vascular series, and I had told myself it was fine, it was a sketchbook on a kitchen table in a locked apartment, and I had worked for another hour before the thought returned with enough insistence that I packed up my pencils and told Marco I was going home for lunch.

The first thing I noticed when I came through the door was the coffee cups on the kitchen
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