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WAITING

Author: Aikohi
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Third Person

They come from all over the city.

Not in one big dramatic group like something out of a movie. These things are never done that way. They arrive separately, different cars, different routes.

Slipping into the neutral venue within a tight thirty-minute window so nothing looks suspicious from the outside. No convoys, no obvious patterns. Nothing that screams what this really is.

This is a trial.

The venue is an old private members club in Mayfair that has played host to these kin
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L Lundy
Laura I was thinking the one who wrote this is good, they know how to us in suspense, I thought maybe Lola would come in with maybe the one who threatened her and taught him a thing or so maybe got the truth out of him. I'd like to read more from who ever this is.
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Jess
I was hoping he had some evidence….:(
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