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Chapter Forty Eight

Author: Richiegirl
last update publish date: 2026-05-20 21:02:13

Kia

I didn't go to Xander's room.

I got as far as the corridor outside it, close enough to hear the quiet murmur of Bren's voice through the door conducting some late business, and I stopped.

Because I understood, standing there in the dark passage with the stone cold against my feet and everything Anastasia had said still reverberating through my chest like an echo in a very deep place, that I couldn't walk into that room carrying all of this and come out the same person who walked in.

And I w
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