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Chapter 25: The Landlord's Son
Author: Nathan Emorey
last update2026-03-18 03:29:41

Nathan's childhood room was quite different from how it looked eight years ago. It now looked more like a chamber and less like a ten year old’s room.

Nathan lay in bed for a long moment, staring at the vaulted ceiling. The silence here was complete.

He had trained himself to sleep in noise. In his old apartment, the radiator had conducted a personal, ongoing argument with the plumbing every night between two and four AM, and Nathan had learned to sleep through it the way sailors learn to slee
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