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Chapter 17. Welcome Home
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2024-10-29 19:42:56After Mari left I thought a lot about what she’d said at the end. Was I that obvious? Did I act this obvious around Damien too or did she just see through it because she was my best friend?
It was a lost cause in any case since I was already here and probably would be staying. I felt a relief as I made that decision in my head. I was going to take the chance life had accidentally handed me.
I had a lot to do that afternoon and even though I was pretty exhausted and had strict instructions from Damien via the housekeeper to rest, I set up my laptop on the bed.
For once in my life, I was grateful that I was in the habit of lugging around my laptop with me to classes even though I never even used it a lot on campus.
I wrote an email to my college explaining the situation, it wouldn’t have been a big problem had I been a regular student but it actually was because I was on scholarship.
I had worked my ass off for this scholarship and
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