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Chapter eighty-five

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Writer's POV

Mia had had enough of Alex, and knew she was going to leave his house that moment. I

She felt was stupid. Stupid to have agreed to live with him. He had no right to treat her like that. She scoffed when she realized Alex was treating her like an animal, and was treating his dogs like humans.

It hurt so much for someone to treat her like that. She had lived with her cousins and grandma. With them being extremely poor, but they had all been happy. Tolerate each other. Alex was actually the first person she was living with, Aside her grandma and cousins. None of them had made her feel the way Alex had. And she suddenly started missing her family. Felt the sudden urge to go meet them. Because she didn't feel herself anymore. She wanted to be where she would be given love and treated with respect. Not like a nuisance, the way Alex was treating her. 

She knew she would endanger their lives to go see them, but she needed to be around them, even i

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