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"ʜɪꜱ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ʟɪᴠᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ᴍᴏᴜᴛʜ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ꜱɪɴ ᴅɪꜱɢᴜɪꜱᴇᴅ ᴀꜱ ᴘʀᴀʏᴇʀ."
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He was cold, built from duty and silence, convinced his heart no longer had a purpose beyond survival, until she arrived without trying to change him at all, lingering with warmth, defiance, and a quiet persistence that slipped past his defenses, melting what years of war and restraint had frozen, reminding him what it felt like to want, choose, and to feel something he was never supposed to feel again.
After all, he is a married man.
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