The Fighter's Obsession
“Third floor. They’re keeping him in holding, but he’s pissed. Like... punching-wall pissed.”
I didn’t respond, just pulled onto the road, hands tight on the wheel.
“Hey,” Estelle said softly, “you okay?”
“I’m fine,” I said too quickly.
But even I didn’t believe that.
Because somewhere deep down, beneath the anger, the betrayal, the scar Cassian left behind, I could already feel the chaos coming.
And somehow, some damn how, I was driving right into it.
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Ten minutes passed as I waited outside the station like Estelle had asked. She had vanished into the station, disappearing with a casual “Don’t look too lawyer-y just yet,” as if that were something I could turn on and off.
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