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Hungry Hounds

Author: dreamywriter
last update Last Updated: 2024-07-03 11:11:30
“Shock, confusion, disbelief”, a torturous mix of emotions rush through me.

The murmuring continues, spiking to full volume as everyone turn their eyes towards me waiting for my reaction.

Where before they fixed me with shifting gazes, pretending to be busy with something once my eyes met theirs, they now stared at me openly.

Open, unmoving gazes fixed on me like hungry wolves waiting to pounce.

Obviously, the conversation had been going on for a while.

I scoff wondering what brought about the ridiculous thinking in the first place.

Even if Simon got me a million dollars worth of jewelry, it won’t even touch my hands in the first place talk less of finding its way to my neck.

‘It’s not your business where she got the necklace, it’s like you’ve all got nothing better to do’ Adam glares at all the unflinching, unmoving gazes.

‘There’, I snap out of my confused daze, I place a palm and Adam’s arm.

‘It’s true, I saw you on Monday clutching it in your hand when you left hi
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