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Chapter 13: The Night The Family Let Her in
Author: Dahlia Queen
last update2025-11-24 04:43:45

The rain had been falling for hours, the kind that drummed steadily on the roof and made the whole world feel quieter, smaller, almost intimate. Aria hated nights like this. Nights where the silence made her thoughts too loud. Nights where everything felt heavier than usual.

She sat on the edge of the small couch in her room, hair damp from rushing through the compound earlier, arms wrapped around her knees. She kept glancing at her phone, waiting hoping for a message from Kade.

Nothing.

She had told herself not to expect anything. He had made it clear earlier that day that he wanted distance. But even as he pushed her away, something in the way he looked at her something tired, something hurting made her believe he didn’t actually want her gone.

Yet here she was, alone and waiting for a boy who wasn’t hers.

A sharp knock sounded on her window.

Aria froze.

Another knock, softer this time, followed by a familiar voice:

“Aria… open up.”

Her heart nearly jumped out of her chest.

She move
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