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Chapter 60: Slow Burn.

Author: WhisperWitch
last update publish date: 2026-05-22 19:52:21

The apartment smelled faintly like coffee and rain and Nikola woke up first which honestly felt weird enough already. H e snuggled against something warm and solid and for a few peaceful seconds then he paused completely, still.sleepy enough that his brain hadn’t started embarrassing him yet. Then slowly, realization crawled back in pieces…it was not his bed, not his apartment, not his pillow…not even a pillow.

Oh.

Nikola’s eyes blinked open slowly and immediately landed on Elias asleep beneath
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