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2024-10-29 19:42:56Chapter 8 - Deception
Nesrin
"I need to go to Caspian tomorrow." I casually threw out as everyone ate their dinner in silence.
The tension in our home was anything but calm since Imelda had left. It had been three weeks since she ran away. Ran away is the broad term of what she did since our mother refused to believe that all her children would blindside her like that and help our sister escape her arranged marriage from hell. Literally.
Or at least that's what she wanted us to believe, but I knew she was just hurt that she wasn't involved in her escape plan.
My mother arched a brow at me but didn't say a word as she took another bite of her roasted duck. I took her silence as my queue to continue talking.
"Garren is a friend of
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