Chapter 32 – What Follows When You Don’t Turn Back

Chapter 32: Chapter 32 – What Follows When You Don’t Turn Back

We didn’t speak right away after that.

Not because there was nothing left to say, but because everything that could have been said in that moment would have only added more weight to something that already felt dangerously close to breaking. The tension hadn’t disappeared; it had simply changed shape, settling somewhere deeper, somewhere harder to ignore.

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