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Claire sat like a corpse herself as Kent drove in silence. He has been studying her features since the minute they left Hunter outside the restaurant. Claire was trembling, and though he blamed it on the heavy rain for drenching her, he knew what the real deal was.

She never sat still for a long while in one position. Her fingers bit and banded around her arms, her feet were restlessly tapping as if she was unable to suppress feelings that she should otherwise let freely flow through her. Her Complexion grew waxen and salty torrent perpetually streamed down her face like she was regretting something she did or said.

"Claire, are you okay?" Kent decided against his will and asked her.

"Just take me home quicker." She assured him with her dipping head as she wiped her tears.

The look of hurt on Hunter's face was flashing in her mind endlessly. She didn't like it one bit. But she did it to punish him.

If not with actions, she could hurt him with words, couldn't she? It was nothin
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