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67. History repeating itself

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JEREMIAH

The silence in the car was thick— like blood drying on skin, like ash after fire.

She hadn’t said a single word since we left the club. And for the first time I wasn’t too comfortable with this silence. I’ve always preferred it in the past. It’s predictable. Reliable. Uncomplicated.

But tonight, it feels like a scream stretched thin across the leather seats. It’s suffocating like the silence in that dark cell where I was kept.

She was crying. Again. The way someone cries when they were trying not to. The kind that doesn’t beg for attention. Not loud, not hysterical but just those quiet sobs that crawl under your skin and settle into your bones.

And then then those quiet sobs turned into more, they begin to shake her shoulders, like something inside her was breaking with each breath.

I fucking hate it.

And I didn't understand why.

But hearing her muffled cries had my jaw locked. And my mind? It felt like a fucking battlefield.

I should feel victorious. I should feel sati
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paigelee89
He is cracking slowly!!
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Stephanie
I don’t hate Lachlan. He was forcing Jeremiah to live with his decisions. I think it’s working!
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Kavyashree
can’t wait for Jermiah’s POV when the truth unfurls and proves her innocence. Maybe she is the one who will have suffered more than him for all the 12 years plus more after his return and yet dine him a favour by giving him his biggest gift an heir and protected him while she herself has lost memori
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