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New Beginnings

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Chapter Eighty-Three

Jade’s POV

The car ride felt too quiet.

Not because the city outside wasn’t alive, it was. People moved with purpose, traffic crawled like a stubborn animal, and the sky was bright enough to make everything look normal.

But my mind wasn’t normal.

My mind was loud.

I sat in the backseat with my laptop bag on my lap, staring at the notes on my phone without actually reading them.

Today was supposed to be a good day.

A big day.

A day I had dreamed of for years.

Yet my chest st
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