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Chapter 16: Threatened

Author: Ivy Walters
last update publish date: 2025-07-31 18:10:40

Maya POV.

"Are you sure about this?" Mona asked, hovering over me as I stuffed the rest of my clothes into my bag.

"Of course," I answered, grabbing my body lotion and other cosmetics.

"Shouldn't you at least wait for them to return before leaving?" She insisted.

"Leave now, leave later. It's still the same thing," I said.

It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Mona and I had just gotten back from school and I was packing up my things to leave.

One thing, though, I didn't tell her that my parents w
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