Chapter 25
Chapter 25: Proof in the Quiet Maison Sauveur – Next Day, Morning Feliz arrived earlier than usual. The silence of the atelier greeted her—warm, familiar, but heavy this time. Like it knew she hadn’t really slept. She didn’t go to her station. Not yet. Instead, she walked slowly to the sewing room, brushing her fingertips across the back of the couch where she and Sly once stayed up revising the SS line. Where he had quietly draped his jacket over her when she dozed off. Where his kindness had spoken louder than his promises. She wasn’t sure what to do with all that now. The door creaked open behind her. No footsteps. But she felt him. Sly [quietly] “You’re early.” She turned. He looked the same—tired, steady, worried—but something in his eyes was different. He wasn’t trying to e
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