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Chapter 33: Just one drink
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2024-10-29 19:42:56(Dimitri’s P.O.V.)
I get in my car and slam the door close. The other door opens and someone hops in the passenger seat. It is my cousin Kirill.
“Get out, I want to be alone,” I say to him in a rude tone of voice.
“No way, I’m coming with you,” he says determinedly as he puts on his seat belt just to let me know he is not going anywhere.
I roll my eyes and start the car. We drive out of the residential complex. I don’t care that I am leaving in the middle of my father’s birthday, I need to get away and clear my head. I can’t believe what Victoria did, after these last few days we spent together I thought she really had feelings for me, but she was thinking about another man all along. Her betrayal stings
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