Chapter 287

• VALENTINA
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• The next morning came faster than I expected. I woke up before the alarm, stomach already doing that low flip it had started doing every day. Not bad. Just there. Like a reminder. I lay there a minute staring at the ceiling, then rolled out of bed quiet so I wouldn’t wake Gustavo. He was still asleep, one arm thrown across my pillow like he’d reached for me in the night. I didn’t tell him where I was going. Not yet.