CHAPTER 93CASSIAN Three days in that room was enough. I put on last night’s black shirt, ignored Maya’s texts, ignored Sofia’s landing message, and let a car take me somewhere loud enough that I wouldn’t hear my own head.The club was a mistake the second I walked in. Too many bodies, too much bass, lights cutting the floor into pieces I couldn’t keep track of, but I went in anyway because going home meant the kitchen and the laptop and the voice that had called me nothing. I drank at the bar first, badly, whatever they put in front of me, and I didn’t keep count because counting would have made it look like I still cared about morning.Then I danced.I let a stranger pull me into the crush and I went with it, hips against someone I didn’t know, hands on a waist that wasn’t his, grinding because the music wanted movement and movement was easier than thinking. Another man came in behind me and I didn’t stop him. I rolled with it, head tipped back, mouth open on a laugh that didn’t be
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