The Shape Of Forever Country: AurivelleCity: AuremontAlvaraWe’d been back from Morocco for two days.Two days back in Auremont.Back to schedules. Meetings. Emails. The atelier. Dane Properties. Traffic. Calls from Seren before nine in the morning.Everything was exactly where I’d left it.And somehow, I wasn’t.That was the strange part.Nothing around me had changed.But something inside me had gone quiet in a way I hadn’t realised it needed to.Japan and Amsterdam had softened me.Morocco had slowed me down even more.A whole week of waking up beside Grayson without rushing anywhere. Eating late breakfasts. Wandering unfamiliar streets hand in hand. Falling asleep tangled against him while he talked about things that didn’t matter and somehow mattered completely.It had done something to me.Something subtle.Something permanent.Grayson noticed it before I did.The morning we landed back in Auremont, he looked at me across the car and said,“You’re quieter.”I’d frowned. “I’m
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