The Quiet That Follows
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Capri doesn't break down at her father's funeral. She doesn't cry, doesn't scream, doesn't feel much at all.
But she does notice a man she's never seen before. And when their paths cross again, something about him-his stillness, his gaze, the way he never quite says too much-pulls at the part of her that's gone quiet.
Their connection isn't romantic. Not exactly.
It's slow. Strange. Unspoken. And as it deepens, Capri finds herself slipping-into memory, into obsession, into questions she's not ready to answer.
Some people enter your life gently. Others arrive like silence you can't escape.
This is the story of the latter.
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