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Chapter 16: Jareth
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2024-10-29 19:42:56I find Mortensen fully dressed and about to leave the moment I open my eyes the next morning.
“I cleared some space for you, you can put your things in the closet,” he says before he walks out.
I jump out of bed to see what drawers he cleared. As I suspected, one of them is the one with Grace’s belongings but, to my surprise, the watch Sabrina gave to him is not here either. I search around the room, the things are not here. I then go to his office, and in every place I can think of, but the things that were in Grace’s drawer are gone. I don’t even know why I’m looking for them, I am just curious to know what he did with them. I finally check in the trash can, in case he tossed them, but it is empty. What if he took out the trash while I was sleeping? It ma
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