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Chapter 60: A win is a win

Author: Black sweet
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-29 23:45:49

~ Avelyn ~

I searched for them until the music started to sound like noise, loud noise pounding against my skull. But Kyle and Ariana were no were in sight.

The corridors in this place all looked the same and it was making my head dizzy. Seeing the same old glossy floors, mirrored walls, perfume and liquor hanging thick in the air. Every time I asked someone if they’d seen a red-haired girl with a sharp tongue and a man who looked like he was built to save lives in the emergency ward, I got the same answer, blank looks or a lazy shrug.

Finally, a security guard in black said they’d left. “Together,” he added. “Got into a car a few minutes ago.”

That made my stomach twist. Kyle would never just… leave. Not after what happened between us in the garden. And Ariana, she had enough fire in her to chew me out for an hour at least.

So why leave?

I lingered by the exit, scanning every passing face, hoping they’d reappear, but they didn’t. The whole thing felt off, but what else was I suppose
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