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Chapter 31:Blindsided

Author: DemiLova
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-06 20:26:21
Caroline slammed the restaurant door shut, the sound echoing in the quiet night like a gunshot. "Human, human," she hissed, the word feeling like acid on her tongue.

How could she? How could Maralyn, her supposed best friend, carve out her heart like this? After all these years, after shared secrets whispered under bed sheets, after surviving the rollercoaster of life together, she’d just...thrown her to the wolves.

"Human, human," she repeated, her voice cracking with rising frustration. She could feel the anger, a hot, molten rage, building inside her. She needed to escape, to flee this suffocating betrayal, this small-minded city that seemed to be closing in on her.

Out of this restaurant, out of this heartless place where friendships meant nothing, out of the clutches of a heartless, manipulative…human.

She felt numb, the betrayal stinging like a fresh wound. A wound so deep, it felt like she'd lost a part of herself. Her friendship with Maralyn, a bond she'd believed unbreakable
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