Ashes Between Us
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Complete Tue, May 27, 20251h 25m
Joshua didn't mean to find the café. Neither did Seokmin. But somehow, they ended up in the same quiet place-where secrets are the price of entry and nothing feels quite real.
They were strangers, both carrying things they couldn't say out loud and in a place that collects confessions, they found each other instead.
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