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Chapter 36: After

Author: Gabriella Stark
last update publish date: 2026-07-04 18:41:34

Anastasia’s POV:

The eggs were good.

Lucas was insufferably pleased about this and did not say so out loud which somehow made it worse. I ate and he ate and we did not talk about Whitmore or the drives or the Meridian Group or any of the things that had occupied every waking hour of the past week. We talked about nothing. He told me about a restaurant in Rome he had eaten at alone on a business trip three years ago and spent the entire meal wishing he had someone to share it with. I told him ab
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