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Chapter 91: The Space Between Strength and Fear

Author: Iris Bloom
last update publish date: 2026-04-25 00:37:28

Raymond did not answer her immediately.

Not because he did not hear the question, nor because he did not understand what lay beneath it, but because the weight of it required more than instinct, more than reassurance, more than the kind of response that could be given simply to ease the moment and move past it.

He understood exactly what she meant. Not just the surface of it. But the deeper, more dangerous layer beneath. Because seeing Mark again would not be neutral. It would not be distant.

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