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Chapter 71: The Thing About Gerard

ผู้เขียน: Gabriella Stark
last update วันที่เผยแพร่: 2026-08-11 22:22:55

Anastasia’s POV:

Gerard met the children on a Sunday that smelled like cut grass and Lucas had been quietly dreading for three weeks.

Not dreading in the way of something he did not want. Dreading in the way of something he wanted so much that the possibility of it going wrong had become its own specific weight. I had watched him manage it the way he managed things that cost him something, with the particular stillness of a man holding himself together in a public space and hoping nobody looked
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