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Chapter 012

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Janessa's POV

The next morning, I was sitting in a tiny corner booth of a coffee shop two blocks away from campus, desperately trying to drown my anxiety in a massive cup of black caffeine.

The bell above the door kept jingling as students drifted in and out, laughing, chatting, and completely oblivious to the fact that my entire existence had turned into a full-blown war zone.

The smell of roasted espresso beans usually calmed me down, but today, it was barely keeping me from jumping out of m
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