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49: Small talks

Author: nayaa
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-31 09:40:55

Kali's POV

If this was a trap, I most definitely wasn't going to fall for it.

Zara reached out and took both my hands in hers. "I know Ike can be a bully. And he told me everything, so there is absolutely no need to pretend to be aloof. But if that is how you want to play it, it's completely fine."

I pursed my lips.

Zara sighed in frustration. "I wish you would not be so quiet. I wish you would speak up for yourself."

"Easy for you to say," the words were out my lips before I could stop it.

I waited for a backlash or something, but Zara's eyes widened in surprise or maybe it was excitement.

"Just like that. Tell me what you really want Kora. Do you want to be with Em?"

What I really wanted? That was a tough ask.

I have never really wanted anything, but now I wanted to run away from all this. From Ike, from Emmett and even Zara.

I wanted to be free, to understand what it meant to be free and to just be.

But that would just be wishful thinking. People like me are never tr
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