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Chapter 83

Author: Oge Chi
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Eighty-Three

Chloe

"What do you mean he's gone?" I asked, rising to my feet. "The trial is supposed to be by ten."

The defeated look on David's face caused my heart to stutter. I shook my head frantically. "No. He can't just disappear like that."

"Chloe-" Addy called out soothingly and I clasped my hands over my ears. The room spun around me. The weight of what had just happened dawned on me and I didn't want to acknowledge it.

"I should have known," I whispered. "I should have known. He walked in here so fucking confident that the trial would not hold! I should have fucking known!"

"Chloe! Calm the fuck down!" Addison ground out. I couldn't figure out where she was. The room seemed to spin faster as fear rocked within me. My knees knocked to the ground as I hunched over, quivering.

Dad had known all along. That the trial wouldn't hold. I had been foolish to think he had come to beg and grovel. That he was trying to avoid a trial. But I was wrong. No. I was foolish. David ha
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