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Chapter 22: The Uneasy Feeling

Author: Jasmine Sheng
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-21 09:44:50

Adrian’s POV

The city lights blurred past the windshield, streaks of gold and white sliding across Marissa’s reflection in the glass. She was quiet beside me, but not the peaceful kind of quiet, it was sharp, waiting.

I couldn’t manage to get a single word out since we left the mall. My hands stayed fixed on the wheel, grip too tight, as if the motion of driving could steady the chaos in my head.

That touch. It just refused to leave me.

I hadn’t meant to hold her hand, whoever she was. She had stumbled, and instinct made me catch her. But the instant our skin met, the world seemed to stop moving.

Her hand was trembling, cold at first, then warm, a warmth that carried a familiarity I couldn’t place. It had las

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