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Chapter 42

Author: Somky
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Pearl

The ride there felt longer than it actually was, not because of the distance, but because of the way my stomach stayed tight the entire time, like it remembered something my mind kept trying to push away.

The last time I had been here, everything had spiraled so fast I barely had time to breathe before it turned into chaos.

A small part of me had thought that with everything that had gone down in the last couple of days, I wouldn't remember shit, but my memory picked the worst time to be
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