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Book 4: chapter 43

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Luke

Everything started out well enough. Luke woke up and had a few texts from Aaliyah that he responded to right away and then he got up and got ready for his day. Everything was going the usual way. He took his shower, got ready, and went out front to start his truck. The truck didn’t want to start. He would have been better off just staying home. His truck not starting was a sign of what was to come.

When he finally got his truck fixed, he was about an hour late for a meeting that he had. It was important, of course, and two other people that he was meant to meet did not want to wait. They were not as forgiving, and he then had to meet them on their turf, which was twenty minutes out of the city from where he was right then. He tried to keep things as positive as he could, but it was hard though.

At lunch time, the restaurant he stopped at messed up his order three different times, before he literally had to leave because he was not going to get what he wanted. Even then, as he a
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