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CHAPTER 52

Author: PUREBLISS
last update Huling Na-update: 2026-01-26 00:01:37

"Julian, I'm exhausted. I don't want to go anywhere."

"Too bad. These walls are choking you. I'll be in the car."

I scrub a hand down my face and follow him out of my room.

“We’ll be back,” Julian says to my dad and sister who are still sitting at the table, talking quietly.

I shove open the driver's side door of Julian's Corvette and climb into the driver's seat. As I turn the key in the ignition the rumble of the engine takes my entire focus and I close my eyes, drawing in a slow, steady brea
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    Lieutenant Stewart cautions me to watch myself and that he's having an officer report to Governor Richard Stratton's before hanging up.Governor Richard Stratton takes a step forward and grasps the lapel of my jacket, dragging me over the doorstep into his home."Julian, what is going on in the world? Who were you talking to and why are you getting them to beat up Camille?""I have to commend you, Governor, this is some really good acting at being an idiot.""What are you talking about?!" he roars, shaking me violently by the shoulders.I decide to continue playing along and probe his answers. "Someone burned River's store down two nights ago." My throat is screaming at me.begging me to keep the hell up so I don't do some irreversible damage, but even if I never get to talk again, by God, I'm going to get through this."And you're saying it was Camille?I reach into my coat pocket and retrieve my phone, bringing up the photos from the camera feed River had texted me, more interested i

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