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Gaia’s voice trembled as she called out his name again. “Valtor?” Her back pressed against the headboard, her knees drawn up as she sat on the bed’s edge. Fear glistened in her wide eyes, her chest rising and falling with shaky breaths. Her fingers gripped the sheets beneath her, the cold sweat clinging to her skin making them slippery.

But Valtor didn’t stop. His movements were slow and deliberate, his expression blank and eerily calm, as if he were in a trance. He stepped closer, and she froze, her heart pounding in her chest like a frantic drumbeat.

“Valtor,” she said again, louder this time, but the man before her seemed far away, unreachable. Her fear deepened as he climbed onto the bed, his movements strangely fluid yet mechanical. Gaia’s body stiffened as his weight shifted the mattress beneath her, and she instinctively scooted further back, her legs hitting the headboard.

Then, to her shock, Valtor leaned forward and rested his head against her lap. Gaia gasped, her hands hov
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