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Aftermath

Penulis: Ravenna
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-02 22:36:35

The penthouse felt different when you weren't pretending it was just a temporary place to avoid thinking.

Matthew sat on the edge of the bed—Victoria's bed, still smelling like her perfume and his own failure—and stared at his phone. The screen was dark. He'd turned it off about an hour ago because Victoria kept calling, and he didn't have the energy to answer the same question in different ways.

He had slept maybe two hours. The whiskey had worn off around 4 AM, which meant he'd spent the last
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