Amara found herself in an uneasy feeling, the moment when things had taken a turn for the worse remaining elusive. Was it the spread of the lie, a fabrication that people had begun to embrace as truth? Or perhaps it was Adrian's instant transformation. Regardless of the that,a profound exhaustion settled over her."Can we leave now?" she said in a barely audible whisper, the words escaping her lips like a sigh of resignation.Adrian, however, remained unbothered, his gaze fixed elsewhere. "Not yet," he responded, his tone, cold.Amara exhaled quietly. "My face is starting to hurt from smiling," she confessed, the strain of forcing something to make people believe."That's unfortunate," Adrian replied, a statement that offered no sympathy, only a cold acknowledgement of her discomfort.Turning to face him, Amara challenged, "That’s all you have to say?""Yes," he said.She stared at him, a silent accus
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