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Chapter 95

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"I'm okay… I did not want to speak with her now," Lilian said into the receiver. Her voice was muffled since she heard laughter and the sound of bass notes erupt. The music was not blasting, but loud enough that it seemed every sentence was strained to be heard.

"Are you at a club or something?" Jack's voice cut through the line, punctuated by the sudden shriek of someone else in the area announcing the DJ had just played their favorite song.

"Kind of," she answered, her voice shaking somewhere between anger and indifference.

There was silence on his end, and then a sudden intake of air. "Are you drunk?"

Just texted, she laughed, but her eyes stayed fixed on the half-empty glass before her, the one she was going to fill until night turned into nothing.

"Do you have a designated driver?

That earned a snort from her—high, irregular, almost girlish. Police training was obvious in him, his voice tight with restraint and concern. She was strangely comforted by it, even here in this desolat
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