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Chapter 205

Author: Lana Mora
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-16 18:00:01

Lucas' POV

The harbor air clung thick with salt and diesel rot, the kind of humidity that made lungs feel like wet paper bags. I adjusted the delivery crew cap - too small, its plastic brim digging into my brow - and watched the girl mimic my motions. Her uniform sleeves hung loose, hiding arms that shouldn't have been strong enough to snap a man's spine.

"Steady," she murmured as the cargo ship groaned against the dock. Her voice was wind through dead leaves, a sound that made my hollow chest ache.

My chest, once filled with the rhythmic pulse of life, now lies hollow and empty. What once was organic and vibrant has transformed into a void, where the girl's voice sweeps through like a gust of winter wind through a desolate graveyard.

Leaning against the mast, I thought to myself-

Leah's voice had been honey and wildfire. The girl's voice was neither.

The gate ahead yawned like a rusted jaw, its chain-links strangled by ivy. A single red bul

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