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Chapter 41 – The Shape of Silence

Eli sleeps like something wrung out and emptied.

His breath is shallow, his body slack across the blankets, streaked with sweat and the aftermath of what we just did. What I just did. And gods help me, I didn’t even take him.

I could’ve. I wanted to. I still do.

But I didn’t.

Instead, I made him...