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... stream, I felt like I’d been holding my breath for hours. My chest was tight, and my palms were clammy.
I rubbed them against my thighs, trying to steady my breathing, but I could already feel the weight of what we’d just done pressing down on me. The silence that followed was suffocating. It was just Arec and me, alone in his office now, the tension thick between us.
"Do you think it worked?" I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.
Arec didn’t answer right away. His j ...
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