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Chapter 13: Collateral Damage

Author: EuniceRose
last update publish date: 2026-04-06 14:55:48

~Lora~

A tight knot formed in my chest almost immediately.

I didn’t want Alex involved in this.

Not in anything that had to do with Michael and me.

“And you just let him?” I asked quickly, my fingers curled into my hair in frustration. “How did he even find out in the first place?”

“C'mon, what could I have done?” He gestured. “It's been two days of you lying here, he was bound to find out what happened.”

“But still, you know how the media twists things… they’ll blow it out of proportion and we
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