Where He Learned to Stay
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He was a shadow on the street. She was the only one who noticed.
Night doesn't belong anywhere - not in the alley he sleeps in, not in the legacy he ran from. With one eye and a name that could set cities on fire, he disappears into shadows to keep the world safe from what he might become.
Then Eira stops.
She doesn't ask questions. Doesn't pry. Just takes him. Not just to her apartment - but into her rhythm, her warmth, her world.
What begins as a silent arrangement slowly cracks open into something deeper - a slow unraveling of walls, secrets, a past and the kind of closeness neither of them expected.
He says he doesn't feel anything.
But he watches her like he'd burn the world if someone touched her.
And she's starting to believe him.
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