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EIGHTY TWO

Penulis: Gentle Roses
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Jace's pov

I barely took three steps into the underground parking lot before I realized I was moving too fast for my own damn body to keep up. My pulse was racing, the adrenaline still spiking from the fight with my father, from the words I never thought I’d actually say to him. Words I’d swallowed for years finally clawed their way free.

“I need to see Naomi. I need to see her,” I muttered under my breath as I unlocked my car and slid into the driver’s side. I peeled out of the parking lot, the tires screeching in protest as I hit the main road.

My hands were trembling on the wheel—not fear, not exactly. More like… urgency. Like if I didn’t get to her immediately, everything inside me would cave in on itself.

The speedometer needle was dangling on the wrong side of eighty, but I barely registered it. The asphalt and the world outside the windows was just a blurry smear of green and brown. Every single cell in my body was thrumming with a frantic, desperate energy. I had done it. I h
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