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Chapter 51: Reality Bites

Aвтор: Ij Gabriel
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Ronan's POV

The drive back felt different.

Sarra sat in the passenger seat with her knees pulled up, staring out the window at the passing landscape. She'd been quiet since we packed up that morning, barely touching the coffee I'd made.

"You okay?" I asked for the third time.

"Yeah." She didn't look at me. "Just thinking."

"About what?"

"Everything." She wrapped her arms around her knees. "Tomorrow we're back to normal life. Press, cameras, all of it."

I reached over and squeezed her hand. "We'll handle it."

She nodded but didn't say anything else.

I kept glancing at her as I drove, trying to read her expression. The closer we got to LA, the more she seemed to withdraw into herself. By the time we hit the city limits, she'd put her sunglasses on even though the sun was behind clouds.

"Sarra—"

"I'm fine," she said quickly. "Really."

But she wasn't. I could tell.

When we turned onto my street, I saw them immediately. At least twenty photographers clustered around the entrance to my buil
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