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When Reality Finally Hit

Author: Oma
last update publish date: 2026-05-20 23:04:28

CELESTINE'S POV:

We finish what we started, Lysander and I, and then he kisses my forehead and pulls back and looks at me with those gray eyes that I love so much.

"I think he finally got the message," he says.

I glance at the glass wall. Kier is gone. The hallway is empty. The only evidence that he was ever there is the faint smudge of his face on the glass.

"I think so too," I say.

Lysander helps me straighten my clothes and smooth my hair and find the papers that are scattered across the flo
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