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Chapter Sixty-Nine— kiss

★Maliya's POV★

I couldn't sleep.

The safe house was quiet. Too quiet. Every creak of the floorboards made me jump. Every shadow seemed threatening.

I lay in the unfamiliar bed, staring at the ceiling, and tried to process everything that had happened in the past six hours.

Micaiah was a criminal. Daemon was a criminal. They were enemies in some war I hadn't known existed.

And I'd been caught in the middle, used by both of them.

The pregnancy came back in flashes. The p
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