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Chapter 60: Broken promises

Author: ADISAX
last update Last Updated: 2023-04-16 02:43:33

In the end, promises are just words.

~AUTHOR’S POV~

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The silence was eating them, and his gut kept pushing him to spill the beans. He lied about the day he had suffered a close encounter with death. He turned on the radio, only to hear RJ Shanaya playing another number on request.

“Did you hear breathless?” Ruben chatted.

“She is amazing.” A wave of happiness inserted in her stomach, and the butterflies danced.

“How beautifully she understands a heart, and how easily she..” Ruben turned to face her and halted, seeing Arlet was looking intently towards him.

“I wanted to meet her. Shanaya is your friend, right?” Was he bribing her to ask Shanaya to set up a meeting with Breathless? Arlet smiled.

“I will ask her,” she stuttered happily, seeing this new eagerness to meet breathless.

“Thank you,” Ruben’s eyes returned to the road, but the environment he struggled to change had returned, and the journey parted into silence.

The vehicle came to rest, and neither budged from their pla
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