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Book 4: chapter 52

Author: Uriel Kings
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“Yeah, I’m fucking sure. He attacked Layla.”

Maureen was quiet, like she’d been waiting for me to confirm that. “Is she going to testify to that, if she has to?”

“Of course she is.”

My response was knee jerk, but beneath it, the pit was widening, deepening, darkening. I couldn’t see the bottom or feel the sides anymore. I was hollowing out.WouldLayla testify for me?HadI been mistaken? Why wasn’t she returning my calls? Where the hell was she?

I went by her place at least once a day, but she was never there. At least, she never answered her door. I even slow crawled past Jack’s house, but there was no sign of her car. Then, on Friday night, six days after my world went to hell, it went away. Blake dropped the charges. He released a statement about it being a misunderstanding. He apologized to the unnamed woman who had been involved. He was going to work on himself and figure out how this could have happened.

Astounded, I called Layla again. I was so sure that now this one thing had fal
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