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Chapter 47: Return to the city of Ghost

Author: Chithority
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-09-17 16:33:09

The road stretched endlessly before me, the yellow lines flickering beneath the tires in a rhythm that felt both hypnotic and cruel. My headlights carved thin tunnels through the midnight dark, fragile promises in a world that had stopped believing in mercy. The hum of the engine filled the silence, a constant drone that pressed against my eardrums, but my thoughts were louder—sharper—spilling over each other until they threatened to drown me.

My hands gripped the steering wheel tighter than necessary, knuckles straining white each time my eyes blurred from fatigue and grief. The leather beneath my palms felt slick, as though even the car knew I was holding on too hard, too desperately. I had not driven into Chicago in years—by choice. That city was his, Sebastian’s. His empire of glass and steel, of triumphs and betrayals, of memories that clung like smoke. I had abandoned it all the moment I abandoned him, slamming the door on a life that had already broken me once.

But tonight, the
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