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Chapter 13

Penulis: Glory Nonye
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-12-23 16:51:28

(Elena POV)

I didn’t stop running until my lungs burned.

The hallway blurred past me, my heartbeat thundering so loudly it drowned out everything else. I slammed my bedroom door shut and locked it, pressing my back against it as if Damian himself might burst through.

My head is spinning.

I couldn’t breathe.

The folder.

The lies.

The silence. Why did he lie to me? Or was it a lie? My thought process was no working at the moment.

My hands shook as I shoved clothes into a bag—anything, everything
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