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CHAPTER 61 PART 1

Author: AL-Ghainyy
last update publish date: 2026-10-16 23:49:40

(Lara's POV)

The police took Maxton away in handcuffs, his face so swollen and bloody that the officers handling him kept exchanging glances like they were not sure whether to arrest him or call another ambulance. He was screaming the entire time, incoherent words that bounced off the lobby walls and traveled up through the elevator shaft until they reached me sitting on the couch thirty floors above, wrapped in a blanket that smelled like Kyle's cologne and stained with his blood.

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