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Chapter 9: Too Deep

Author: Ray Olly
last update publish date: 2026-05-27 19:31:43

KELVIN’S POV

Los Angeles alive in that quiet, distant way it gets at night. The city moves around us. Inside the car was silence. I keep my eyes on the road, hands steady on the wheel, posture controlled like always.

She sits beside me, close enough that I’m aware of her without looking, every small movement, every shift in her breathing, every second stretching longer than it should.

Neither of us speaks at first, we don’t need to. Everything is already there. The dinner. Austin. The way his h
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