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Chapter 102: Through Smoke

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~ Vivienne's POV

Someone grabbed my arm.

It was one of the security staff, a broad-shouldered man whose name I had never learned despite passing him at the entrance desk every morning for two years, and he was holding my arm with the firm and well-intentioned grip of someone performing their function correctly.

"Ma'am, you can't go back in. The building is being evacuated, you need to stay—"

"Let go of my arm," I said.

The tone of my voice was not a tone I used often and it surprised him enough
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