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Chapter 23

Kira Rogers

I keep putting it off. I dread meeting the man face to face because I'm well aware that I might not be able to do it, and the powerlessness makes me feel apprehensive about even going near him. For the next couple of weeks, I completely stay away from that instruction, carrying out other minor jobs that have been given to me: warn him, beat her up, kill them.

The little jobs kept me going and keep my mind off the main issue at hand as I have to think of strategic ways to carry out my jobs. Usually, I don't even take those ones—only the killing parts are the ones I carry out because the others are for minors, and I can't be risking my identity to do something so small. However, it's the best I can do to distract myself, and I definitely don't want to go to a party once again, fearing that something similar to what happened the last time would happen and shift my life from its balance.

"You know that you have to do this sooner or later," Xavier says to me, frownin
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