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Chapter 97

Author: Emily Cohen
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-26 21:06:31

FREDDY'S POV

The whiskey ran down my throat like wildfire.

I relished it. It was exactly what I needed right now.

That burns against my own feelings.

I sat, hunched over a half-full glass of whiskey, the half-full bottle just next to me.

I swirled the amber liquid, following the movement with my eyes as though the answer to everything lay somewhere in it.

Around me, laughter rang out.

"You wouldn't believe it. When she came up to me, I was dumbfounded. I thought there was no way in the world mamacita would be interested in me," Marcus said. He was recounting the story of a black haired beauty he had met at a rooftop party sometime last year. I had heard that story at least ten times, but Marcus was so smitten by this woman that he would not stop telling the story to whoever gave him a listening ear.

Worse, he refused to accept the fact that he was obsessed with her.

Caleb and Jake laughed hard at the little jokes he slid in here and there.

While Manuel - the quiet and shy man of th
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