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Chapter 14
Chapter 14
"You know that I'm engaged to a random stranger since I was born, right?"
She nodded fervently, her hands running across the fabric of his clothes as if her fingers were finding something on his chest. "Yup."
"That random person just came to my doorstep yesterday," he then said as he pressed the cigarette between his thin lips to take in another smoke, looking away from her.
"Hm," he heard her moan as her fingers stopped doing their work on his chest then silence followed, lasting for moments. "Does that mean it's the end for us?" she finally spoke in a small, cracking voice that made Adler stop looking away and face her. He noticed that her face was crumpling that not even a piece of paper could imitate and her sharp, phoenix eyes held an emotion that he couldn't tell.
He opened his mouth to
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