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Chapter 41 Tremble

Author: Mira Light
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  Emily lay on his side, the soft hush of the evening wrapping around the room. The shadows on the ceiling shifted gently as the breeze moved through the curtains.

  She hadn’t spoken in a while.

  Adrian, lying beside her, finally broke the silence.

  “You’re still awake,”he said quietly.

  Emily hesitated.“I’m just…thinking.”

  “About?”

  She turned her head slightly, catching the faint outline of his profile in the dim light.“Us,”she admitted, voice barely audible.

  For a beat, he didn’t respond.

  Then—“I see.”

  “I mean…”she searched for the words.“It’s just…things feel different now. We’re still pretending, but sometimes it doesn’t feel like pretending.”

  Adrian’s gaze remained steady, though his voice dropped just a touch.“It doesn’t feel like it to me either.”

  Her breath caught, her heartbeat fluttering in the silence that followed.

  Then he shifted slightly, reaching up to brush a stray strand of hair from her cheek. His fingers lingered, soft and warm.

  She shifted sli
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