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Chapter 116

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REX’S POV

For the most part of the time since my mother’s dead, that though had always been at the back of my mind and sometimes I just couldn’t help but let it consume me. Times like now, as I sit comfortably in my study with Tyler going through the file drawers at the opposite side from where I sat.

I rarely come into this particular room and in general, I avoid it except when it is utterly and completely necessary because for some reason it solely take me back in memory and reminded me of my ex luna. Even the air in the room for some unknown reason smelt of her. I irked me and most a times, I end up waltzing out of the room and banging the door behind me, leaving Tyler to deal with whatever it was.

Contrary to where my mind always wondered to when I was in the study, today for some reason, my mind couldn’t help but focus on Joan and what her option would be. She have not even me a reason to worry actually but I still felt like I was not proper of me to raise my hope this high.

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