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CHAPTER SIXTY THREE
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2024-10-29 19:42:56TEN YEARS EARLIER
There was knocking on the door of her balcony and there was only one person in the whole wide world that ever comes into her room from that door.
Jordan.
With a wide smile on her lips, she went to open the door to let her best friend in, a warning she didn't half mean sitting at the tip of her tongue.
She already knew that no matter how many times she warns him off, he'd never use the front door.
She's tried and his reply have always remained same, "that's their door down there, Jo, this is mine. I'll always use it because I need you."
She dragged herself over and opened up but the chidding died on her lips as soon as she saw his face.
No, he wasn't here to taunt her or disturb the hell out of her life.<
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