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Chapter 62: Gilded cage

Penulis: Black sweet
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~ Avelyn ~

I hadn’t heard from Ariana in four days.

Four whole days.

I checked my phone every hour before training, between stretches, before stepping on stage even in the damn bathroom like some lovesick fool. Still nothing. The last message I’d sent was still hanging there, unread, like it was mocking me.

You okay? Call me when you can.

That was all I’d written, but what I meant was please, please, please tell me you’re safe. Tell me I didn’t break you too.

The silence that followed was so loud it drowned out the music in my head.

By morning, I’d gotten tired of pretending not to care. I told myself she was just busy, maybe her phone was dead, maybe she was mad but no matter how many excuses I invented, my chest still felt like someone was twisting it from the inside.

So when I couldn’t take it anymore, I did the one thing I swore I’d never do again. I went looking for Xander.

Maybe he could find her. He definitely had resources, connections, ways to reach people that I didn’t.

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