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17. She is here!

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RYAN

“What the fuck?” I growled, lurching upright and swinging blindly, fists clenched and heart pounding like I’d woken mid-fight, which, honestly, wouldn’t have been a surprise.

It was becoming a sick routine- me blacking out, waking up in chaos, and my best friend Arjun playing wake-the-damaged-lunatic. But today? The bastard had taken it up a notch. He’d dumped an entire tray of what felt like Arctic ice water all over me.

I flinched as another ice cube slid down my back and landed with a thud in my lap. “You son of a bitch,” I muttered, glaring at Arjun who stood beside the bed, smugly placing the ice tray on the nightstand like he hadn’t just woken me up with the least favorite method in enitew human race.

“How many did you fight this time?” he asked, tossing a towel at my face.

“Two,” I grunted, pressing the towel to my throbbing face. The edge grazed my split lip and the swollen temple, making me wince.

“Well… that’s one hell of a way to be welcomed back to New York,” drawled
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