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KATHERINE

It was today I understand cooking is another way to pour out one’s frustration.

My knife sliced through the vegetables with aggressiveness, also almost chopping off the chopping board.

As I continued, my mind wouldn’t stop filling itself with thoughts of Silene's return. She'd said she would come back and she really did. So stupid of me to think she was joking when she meant it.

What cut deeper was that he knew – he'd known all along. Or what else can explain why she’s still inside of the house roaming free?

Admitted Derek was fast asleep last night when he came, but he ought to have been awake by now.

My hand moved against the night and suddenly , it slipped, and I barely avoided cutting myself. That was what jolted me out of my thoughts and my breath got stuck in my throat.

I froze, the mid-air. The vegetables lay scattered, some sliced cleanly. This is what happens when I get invested in someone. He shouldn’t be my focus but Bryson, my soon to be mate.

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