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Chapter 22

Author: Kiara
last update Last Updated: 2023-04-28 20:25:15

You are killing me. But you have a right to. Never have seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you. Come on and kill me.

- Ernest Hemingway.

|I R I S|

The sunrays coming from the large glass window of the room fell on my face forcing me to open my eyes and wake up from the peace of sleeping.

Rubbing my eyes with the back of my hands I rubbed the sleep away sitting on the bed. My head pounded with ache and I groaned.

Holding my head in between my palms, I tried to get rid of immense pain, hurting me. It feels like someone is there inside my head poking nails in my skull.

"Frick!" I cursed laying back down on the bed in pain.

I tried to remember the cause of this headache and my mind travelled back to the memories of last night. We went to club and then I drank and danced and drank some more.

Well, it is the side effects of drinking some more. I concluded in my head, closing my eyes trying to go back to sleep instea
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