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Chapter 153: The First Night Without Courtrooms

Author: Iris Bloom
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-26 01:14:20

The laughter faded slowly afterward, though its warmth lingered softly inside the room long after the sound itself disappeared.

For a few brief seconds, the heaviness surrounding them loosened enough for both of them to breathe normally again.

Tricia leaned back carefully against the pillows while watching Raymond across the dim hospital lighting, her chest tightening unexpectedly at how familiar this still felt despite everything life had done to them.

He had always been like this. Even before
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    After General Watson left later that night, the room settled back into quiet again.Not the suffocating silence that had followed courtrooms and confessions these past weeks. A gentler one.Rain still whispered softly against the windows while distant hospital sounds drifted faintly through the corridor outside, muted enough to feel almost comforting.Tricia remained propped carefully against the pillows, her father’s words lingering heavily inside her chest long after the door closed behind him.You survived.Such simple words. Yet somehow they kept undoing her every time someone said them. Because until now, survival itself had never felt like enough.Not after betrayal. Not after nearly destroying the lives of the two men she loved.Not after carrying children into a world already tangled in scandal and grief before they had even taken their first breath.She looked down quietly at her stomach again. The twins had become real gradually rather than suddenly.At first the pregnancy e

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    The rain continued long into the evening. Soft at first.Then heavier against the hospital windows as darkness slowly swallowed the military complex outside, turning the world beyond the glass into blurred lights and distant shadows.Inside the room, the silence between Raymond and Tricia no longer felt strained. Only fragile.Like something injured trying carefully to breathe again without reopening old wounds.Raymond still stood close to her near the window after wiping tears gently from her face, his hand lingering briefly against her cheek before slowly falling away again.Neither of them moved immediately. Tricia could still feel the warmth of his touch lingering against her skin.How could something still feel this familiar after everything?Her throat tightened painfully.“You shouldn’t make this easy for me.”The words slipped out before she could stop them.Raymond’s expression shifted faintly.“I’m not.”“Yes, you are.”Rain thundered softly outside.Tricia wrapped her arms

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