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As we drove, Leon kept up a polite conversation, asking me about my business and how my stay in the city had been so far.

I ended up telling him that I had lived in Hundsville before, in the past, but moved out later. When he asked why, I just gave him a vague family reason and threw off his curiosity.

He glanced at me briefly, then turned his attention back to the road. We continued driving in silence for a few more minutes, the question he had asked drudging up memories of Zack, and making me realize that I should probably just shut up about anything tangentially related to that since I knew that Alpha Lin was already suspicious of my relationship with the man, and no one wanted to have their enemy's old flame handle their court case.

It took a whole hour's drive before we reached the hotel where I was lodged, Leon having taken a more direct, but just as much more lonely path. The beta slowed down and pulled over to the side of the road and I thanked him for the ride and got out.

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