Chapter 81 – What the World Wants From UsThe quiet didn’t feel peaceful.It followed Ethan like a second skin thin, invisible, suffocating. It lived in the corners of rooms, in the pause before people spoke his name, in the way conversations softened when he entered a space as though his presence required caution. Silence had become a language everyone else seemed fluent in. Ethan was still learning how to survive it.The apartment was too neat.Nathan had cleaned earlier methodically, obsessively. Every surface wiped, every chair aligned, every stray object removed as though chaos itself had become something to fear. The order felt unnatural, like a set staged for a life that hadn’t yet begun.Ethan stood by the window, fingers curled around the frame, staring out at a city that no longer looked at him the same way.Outside, the world continued, cars moved, lights blinked, laughter floated up from somewhere down the street. Life, uninterrupted. He wondered how many people passing be
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