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Chapter 30: Why Me?

Author: Charis Jackson
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-06-08 19:44:01

Xena.

The prison was forty minutes outside the city.

I spent thirty-nine of them looking out the window.

The city thinned as we drove. Buildings giving way to highways and to the specific nowhere that exists between places. Grey sky and bare trees. The kind of landscape that didn't have opinions about anything.

I had enough opinions for both of us.

Why me?

I'd been carrying that question since the gala. Through the contract signing and the one night stand and the business trip and the studio bu
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