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Chapter 49: A step in The right direction

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last update Huling Na-update: 2025-09-01 17:11:18

Alexander

I’m here for one reason only: I miss my woman.

And to see her here, comfortable, glowing, and happy in the place where she grew up, with the people who she’s loved all her life… it brings me an immense sense of peace and happiness.

We made the right choice.

Her eyes catch on mine like there’s a magnetic force pulling them in. Her smile widens. Her face glows even brighter even as she tries to conceal her ecstatic smile from her family.

It’s futile.

Her body’s reaction—which is in fact out of her control—is very telling. Her shoulders rise on a deep breath. Her pulse ticks erratically at the base of her throat as she raises a brow at me as if asking what I’m doing here.

I respond with a smile of my own.

You know what else is telling? The energy that is now pulsing in the room.

It’s not discomforting, yet not comforting.

Her brother eyes me with the same distaste he showed during our dinner nights ago..

Her mother… is simply a mother who’s careful for her daughter not to get
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