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CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN

Author: Ella Chimezie
last update Last Updated: 2023-11-11 22:58:17

ORLA

A WEEK LATER

We were back to square one. No evidence to show for all the hell we'd been through in the last few weeks. Ryker, Ophelia, Makila, and Daniel had all gone missing, and there had been no news concerning their whereabouts.

I'd returned to the Darke family house only to find out that Ophelia had buffed up the security while I was gone. Somehow, she had been feeding my parents wrong information about what had been going on, and so they weren’t even aware that their child had almost been killed and that their pack had nearly been under siege.

Although search parties were deep into the investigations surrounding the disappearance of the perpetrators, there was still this heavy sense of tension and and sat over our heads, waiting for the day that it would inexplicably burst and consume us all.

Aside from that, there were other issues that still hadn't been sorted out, like what the mate bond between Maverick and I meant. It grated on my nerves that being close to him was no
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