Chapter 64
✨The Shape of Safety.✨ Flora — Pov Nasir came home just after dusk, the apartment filling with the quiet certainty he always carried with him. Flora heard the door first—the soft turn of the lock, the measured steps in the hallway—and her heart performed that strange, eager leap it had learned to do whenever he was near. Paw lifted his head from her lap, tail thumping twice as if announcing royalty. “There you are,” Nasir said, loosening his jacket. Flora smiled from the couch. “I survived the day without you.” He studied her as though checking the truth of that statement. “Barely, I imagine.” She laughed and patted the space beside her. “Come sit. I have stories.” Nasir didn’t sit—he never did right away—but he came close enough that she could feel the warmth of him, the clean sce
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