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Chapter 9

Author: Diti Koshy
last update publish date: 2025-11-06 09:34:41
[Damon]

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” The words fly out before I can stop them. “being this close to some stranger?”

The moment I saw her standing that near to the man in scrubs, something in my chest burned. My hands clenched, my jaw locked.

I don’t even know what got into me. She was just talking to him. But for some reason, that little distance between them—which, thinking about it now, wasn’t even that small—made me completely lose it.

“We were just talking,” she says, her tone
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