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Chapter Forty Four

Author: NicaWrites
last update publish date: 2025-09-21 04:56:45

NATASHA'S POV

I didn't hear from Layla at all by the time dinner rolled around.

I wondered if she had gotten home and decided not to tell me anyway. Or maybe she forgot.

But didn't she realize that I was worried? Wouldn't that be the only reason I would ask her to text me when she got back from Trent's?

She was being careless again. What if she was in trouble? How could she even trust someone she had only known for two days?

An elite by the way. What was she even thinking?

I let out another si
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