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Chapter 101

Author: Birdy Edwards
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CHAPTER 101

Derek’s POV

The wastelands stretched endlessly before me like a barren land of dust and scrub, as it was under the pale light of dawn. The tires of my rugged vehicle chewed through the uneven terrain, kicking up clouds of dirt that clung to the windshield like a ghostly shroud.

I had been driving for hours with the monotony of the journey only broken by the occasional creak of the old suspension or the distant howl of a lone wolf, likely a rogue patrolling its desolate territory.

But my mind wasn’t on the road. It was on her.

Even now, the memory of Layla’s last embrace lingered on my skin. The way her fingers had dug into my back, the warmth of her lips on mine and the tears she hadn’t shed but I’d felt swelling between us anyway. Every mile I put between us was another thread stretched thin and another ache in my chest.

Come back to me in one piece.

Her whispered plea replayed in my head like a haunting refrain.

That was exactly why I wanted to leave without a dramatic
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