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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. "Human, human," she hissed under her breath, the word tasting like bile in her mouth. How could she do this to her? How could Maralyn, her supposed best friend, betray her like this? After all these years, after all they'd been through, she'd just... thrown her under the bus.

"Human, human," she repeated, her voice rising in frustration. She could feel the anger simmering within her, hot and consuming. She needed to get out, to escape this suffocating betrayal. Out of that restaurant, out of that city, out of the clutches of this heartless, manipulative... human.

She felt numb, the betrayal stinging like a fresh wound. Her friendship with Maralyn, a bond she'd cherished since childhood, had crumbled into dust.

She hailed a cab, the city lights blurring past as she fought back tears. The cab ride was a blur, every street corner a reminder of the life she had built, the life that was now fractured beyond
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