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Chapter 6

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Randy's Pov

The statement hung in the air between us like smoke, thick and suffocating. I watched Clara's face, searching for something, anything that would tell me I was wrong. That I'd misunderstood. That the past five years hadn't been exactly what they felt like in this moment.

"Guilt trip?" I repeated, the words tasting bitter on my tongue. "That's what you think this is?"

My shoulder throbbed with each heartbeat, a steady rhythm of pain that seemed to pulse in time with the fluorescent l
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