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Author: Lyra's Pen
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Ari’s POV

Morning…

Another day after I and Cross’ encounter the previous night.

I sat on the edge of my bed, clutching a steaming mug of coffee as the chaos of the last few days clawed at the edges of my mind. Bruno. Cross. Jonathan. Every corner of my life felt tangled with their shadows, and I was so damn tired of it.

I took a slow sip from my mug, letting the bitterness ground me.

No more.

No more Cross barging into my life with his infuriating arrogance and feigned heroic warnings. No more Jonathan with his deceit and hollow apologies. No more Bruno holding a knife over my career with his greasy fingers wrapped around the truth.

Today, I was a cop. Just a cop. And I was going to act like it.

With that encouragement, I picked myself up for the day.

The precinct was its usual symphony of noise—phones ringing, officers arguing over cold cases, someone cursing at the coffee machine for eating their coins. It was chaotic and predictable, and for the first time in days, I felt a shred o
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