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Chapter 24 – Running

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Noah

I told Heidi I had a hunt.

There's no hunt.

Nothing on the boards, nothing called in, no monster out here worth the crossbow on my back.

I just couldn't sit in her kitchen one more minute while she planned a whole life with me and I nodded along like a man who's all in.

I’ve never hated myself more.

So I'm walking the dark with a weapon I won't use, telling myself the direction I picked was random.

It wasn't random.

I'm well onto the Northgate edge before I'll admit that, and I only admit
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