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Chapter 151

Author: Hikikimori
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Chapter 151. Rosa's Box

ARIA

Vivian drove.

She'd offered before Adrian could. She stood in his kitchen with her car keys in her hand and said, "I'll take her. You'll just sit outside the house and make that woman nervous."

Adrian didn't argue. He looked at me.

"Okay," I said.

So now I was in Vivian's car, on a road going north, with fields on both sides and a security car behind us that Ethan had insisted on. We didn't talk for the first hour. Vivian drove with both ha
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