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Chapter 40.

Author: Best Writes
last update publish date: 2026-04-11 19:00:41

KISAREL.

The meeting went on for another two hours, and somewhere in the middle of it, everyone seemed to have forgotten about me and the embarrassment from earlier.

It became a little easier to breathe. Not fully, but enough to convince myself I could make it to the end of this without completely falling apart.

I sat in my chair, typed my notes, kept my eyes on my screen, and told myself that the worst was over. That I had survived the file humiliation and hadn't broken down in front of twenty
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K_Mikaelson
agreed..... she's so stupid.... I hate her so much
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desiresunshine
I keep waiting for her to do something remotely spectacular and she is just always the victim. It's hard to feel empathy for her. Hopefully she pulls her head out of her ass soon because she's not very likable. Ocean could do better.
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