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Chapter 20: Chapter 21: Subtle Shifts
Morning light slipped through the thin curtains and spread quietly across Jake’s desk. He had been awake for nearly an hour.
At this time of day, the apartment usually carried a kind of soft in-between stillness. His father had already left for work, his mother was getting ready to leave, and Aliya was still asleep behind her closed door. The silence gave him space to think, and lately that had become both useful and dangerous.
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