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CHAPTER 97: Black Bus

Author: Vee Okon
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-25 22:52:56

Cade’s POV

Scarlett's eyes were on mine.

I held them.

Tried to put into the holding of them everything I could not say in this corridor with five armed men and a gun at her head, the specific, complete, irreducible everything of what she was and what she meant and what the two heartbeats inside her meant and what this moment cost me in a currency I did not have enough of.

Her chin lifted slightly.

A small movement. Barely visible. But I knew her face well enough to read it, to understand that w
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