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BECAUSE WHEN YOU CAME AT A DREY, YOU CAME AT ALL OF US

Author: Ray Nhedicta
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-10-21 15:14:03

Chapter 11

DREYDEN

Never be alone with someone you don't know. Check your car before getting in. Assume everyone wants something.

It had made us paranoid. Isolated. But it had also kept us safe.

There'd been incidents over the years. A girl who'd tried to drug Dreylen at a party. A guy who'd attempted to blackmail Dreyton with fake photos. Someone who'd broken into my dorm room freshman year looking for god knows what.

We'd learned. We'd adapted. And now we were essentially impenetrable.

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