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CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE

Author: Vikki
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VIVIAN

My voice came out sharper than I expected and my curiosity had finally turned into a full-blown suspicion which I didn't even try to hide it.

Joanna didn’t speak for a few seconds. Her mouth opened a little, then closed. Then she looked down at her hands on the table, like she was thinking about how to answer.

I waited. My heart was racing a little now with anticipation. Either she was lying to me right now, or she had faked her death.

Either way, it meant there were still more secrets she was keeping from me.

And I hated that. I was tired of being in the dark.

She finally looked up and met my eyes.

But before she could say a single word, something in me shifted.

I wasn’t sure what it was. Maybe it was the way her hands trembled slightly. Or the way she kept avoiding my eyes before looking back up.

Or maybe it was just that quiet voice inside me that had always helped me tell when someone wasn’t telling me the full truth.

Whatever it was, it made my body tense.

I couldn’t expl
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