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Leaving

Author: Toria writes
last update publish date: 2026-04-25 16:16:47
Adeline's POV

I did not turn around.

I was still holding Mikhail's hand and still shaking from two impacts on a dark highway and the last thing I had any intention of doing was turning around to look at Alice Badger.

Standing in a driveway that was not mine in a life I had not asked to be complicated by.

Then she spoke.

"Interesting timing."

Two words. Delivered with the particular lightness of a woman who had decided that amusement was more cutting than anger and had been right about that
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