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Chapter 228

Author: Nabi
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Chapter 228

Jovian

I stood in the bathroom doorway with toothpaste still on my lip and my whole body went cold.

Rian kept turning the pill between his fingers. Slow. Patient. He wasn't angry. That was the worst part. He looked at me the way you look at a little kid who drew on the wall with a marker and is now trying to hide the marker behind his back.

"Baby," he said again. "I asked you a question."

"It made me throw up."

It came out of my mouth so fast I didn't even know I was going to say it
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