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Chapter 130: What Remained Between Them

작가: Iris Bloom
last update 게시일: 2026-05-14 01:16:00

The pause was not long enough to be called interruption, yet it carried the weight of something unfinished, something that refused to dissolve into procedure no matter how firmly the structure of the courtroom attempted to contain it, and in that narrow space where movement should have continued without resistance, Mark stood with just enough stillness to make the moment visible.

Raymond did not rise to meet it.

He did not shift forward or lean back or acknowledge it with anything that could be
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