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Chapter 10 Smoke Beneath the Surface

Word Count: 823    |    Released on: 15/07/2025

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at the sliver of air he left behind, as i

were stil

had forgotten

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or a moment later w

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me the woman the wor

that he remembered words she barely recalled

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and leaned her head b

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the opposite wall - Becoming - the image

what people will say, don't you? T

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the business over

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emind me of an

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rolling through the offic

impressed," she

office, sipping water from a gla

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and, eyes still on Selina. "He

over. "It's a netwo

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int, sharp. "You think I'll fa

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when everyone wants a soundbite. I built a business on the pieces of a woman I once was.

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