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Chapter 76

Author: Rose D' Arc
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Zerah

At first, I didn’t say anything,

Keeping my hands firmly on the wheel, I counted to myself in the silence. No tension.

But the silence in the car with Nathan was too heavy. The kind of weight wrapped around my neck and made the breathing feel like a task.

Nathan hadn’t said a word since we got in.

He simply stared out the window. I couldn't understand what was going on inside his head. I didn’t have the guts to ask him what he was thinking and maybe it wasn’t my place.

Still, I stole a glance at him anyway.

I ended up looking a second too long. Thankfully he wasn't looking my way but his jaw was clenched like he was biting back a scream or something.

With the day he acted, I already had an idea. He'd somehow found a way and now knew what I knew or at least knew I was trying to help Ryker.

Was he mad at me for coming here? At Ryker?

A strange sense of desperation came onto me

I let out a soft chuckle before I even realized it.

Nathan turned his head, eyebrows raised. “What’
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