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Ch -62. Important

Author: J V
last update Last Updated: 2024-07-20 23:57:35

Ashley's POV:

Thoughts start to crowd my mind once again and I simply shrug them off with an ease and swiftness that catches me by surprise.

But I'm successful in convincing myself that he has brought me to his house, just because he doesn't trust me after that night at the party… where he himself had taken me.

“Idiot! Stone head- stone heart.”

I mouth the curse, trying to take another bite of the brownie, realizing that I'm even unable to swallow the first one till now.

My throat is going through a throbbing pain, making me believe that I'm completely out of breath. And within seconds, I start coughing uncontrollably.

Fear starts to wrap its hands around myself l, and its claws start to press down on my neck once again. What is going on… what's happening to me? I have become completely clueless, my mind totally blank.

I hear some footsteps rushing towards me, is it Peter… is it Ethan, or is it my hallucination? I don't know… the only thing I know, is that my eyes have started to shu
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