Lucia’s POV “Are you mad?” Daniel asked me. “I am still deciding if I should be,” I said with my arms crossed. The yelling from outside was driving me up a wall. Yes, the people were shouting in excitement at our victory but did they have to sound so surprised that we actually won? “They actually started planning escape routes and writing wills,” I muttered and then turned to Ryan. “Can you believe them?” Ryan did not respond as he was engrossed in the book he was reading. With how dark his persona was, it was unexpected that a teen fiction novel from decades ago would fascinate him so much. “Hey, Lucia,” he asked after a few minutes. “You said earlier that many of the things in this book happened in real life, right?” I nodded, letting him distract me. “So they leave their meals uneaten on the table because they are upset?” Of all things for him to be surprised about. Then again, this was Ryan we were talking about. At his core, he was a painfully simple twenty-something-yea
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