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Chapter 16

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last update Last Updated: 2025-10-09 15:17:38

The morning didn’t so much arrive as spill through the curtains, it was slow and uninvited, a pale light crawling across the floor until it touched the foot of the bed where I’d been sitting awake for hours. I’d spent most of the night staring at the ceiling, listening to the distant pulse of traffic and the occasional burst of laughter from the street below, wondering how the world could sound so alive when everything in me felt scraped hollow.

The air in the room was heavy with that particular smell of old linen and disinfectant. My suitcase sat by the door, half-zipped while I was accusing my self of not been able to decide. I kept thinking maybe if I waited long enough, someone would call, Grayson, Killian or anyone, but the phone on the nightstand stayed blank-faced and cold. The quiet between us was louder than any argument we’d ever had.

When I finally stood up, my body felt older than it should have. The shower ran cold and I let it, the sting of water o
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