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Chapter 24

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★★JAYDEN★★

 I fall in front of the door, can't go further. "Mr. Richard!" Only one person call me that.

   I can feel my heart beating slowly... In tension, i open my eyes with a blurry vision.

  "Where are you?" I murmured softly. "You're awake?" She rushed to me. She put her hands on me, to feel my temperature.

     "Did you get hurt?" I held her.

      "No" she answered. "Those men came in, they looked at my face before going away. Maybe I wasn't the one they wanted." Then why the hell did I come back? Why the hell-! Shit, I messed with my work because of this little imp.

      I looked at myself, am not wearing a shirt, and this tattoo... She doesn't have to see it. "Go

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