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Chapter Eleven: Heat Beneath the Silence
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2025-07-03 07:00:17Evelyn
The morning stretched like molasses, thick and unmoving, pressing down on me until I could barely breathe.
I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the wooden floorboards as sunlight angled through the high window, catching dust motes in its path. My fingers fidgeted restlessly in my lap, my skin prickling with a tension I couldn’t shake.
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