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Chapter 162: Paranoid Thinking
Lady GwenAnother chapter coming later today. (And yes, the pregnancy question will be answered today too. That isn't one to leave you hanging on for very long.)
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(Leo Bloodstone POV)“You f&&king moron,” my mother said to me angrily.Sometimes I think life would be easier if the females in my family weren’t so d&mn opinionated.But then, I suppose, they wouldn’t be them.“What?” I replied as I rubbed the back of my head, feeling completely confused.“What do you mean what? Did you not watch the same video that I just watched? You broke that poor girl.”I started to get angry. “Mother, I have no idea what you are talking about.”“So you didn’t pick Ingrid and Axel over Piper?”“Goddess, no.”“Oh, really?” she said sarcastically.“NO!”“So Piper would not see it that way, either?”“No, of course not!”Just then, Grandma Rosie walked into the room.“What are you both going on about?” she asked.“Your grandson is a moron,” my mother responded.“Is that why Piper left?”“NO!”“Uh-huh.”“Mother, I did nothing wrong! Stop blaming me. We haven’t even watched all the footage yet. And she was kidnapped. She didn’t leave.”“We will see about that,”
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