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NINETEEN
~Kezziah
I’m staring at a stunned man.
The door behind me shudders closed, a silence following after. I had to come here. After what Cian revealed to me, it’s evident I have no other choice. No one else has offered to help me at all, and as much as I’m trying to figure this out myself, it seems unrealistic that I’ll succeed.
Alden slowly rises from where he was sitting, eyeing me like I’m a foreign creature who crawled into his office. I don’t move from my stance. I can’t change my mind on this.
“What…” he breaks off. “Are you sure?”
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