Chapter 0158

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Rose coming in finally to claim the role of Mark's family member meant I no longer had any business there and I pushed myself past the gawking bodies of people with their gaudy outfits and overpowering perfumes that made made me wrinkle my nose in distaste until I reached the end of the corridor.

For some reason, I glanced back at the door to Mark's private ward with a wry chuckle slipping past my lips. Just look at all these people acting like the typical bottom climbers they were when they'd been practically nowhere to be found, days ago.

We never know who our true friends are until things go spectacularly to hell.

Sighing, I sank into the passenger's seat of my car and pulled the door closed after me, then I threw my purse on the passenger side.

I looked out of the windshield at the stream of people ebbing in and out of the hospital. And all I couldn't help but think of, sitting there, was the scene of Mark's accident where I'd seen Luigi. I remembered seeing his rangy build just 5 o'clock from me that day before he disappeared.

Or maybe I thought I did?

Regardless of what the fact was, if Luigi had indeed been at that place, looking like a spy at a dead drop, it might not mean something good. And he was my friend at least. And as far as I was concerned, I could trust him to the point of believing he didn't have a hand in that incident.

ly way to

those seeds of doubt from my head was to speak to

my car and walked towards Luigi's bar, I could already

Odd.

placed my hands on the glass and peered through the

were the stygian shadows and the ghostly outlines of

with a protesting groan, and the neat space seemned vacant and undisturbed until I completely walked into the room and landed

being a little surprised to see him there. I came fully into the room and shut the door gently behind me as Lucas crossed the space between us in two long strides, to hug me and I surrendered into the comforting warmth of his chest with blissful contentment before

"Where's Luigi?"

danced quickly around the room whilst still in an

seen each other in so long and the first thing you ask about when we meet is my right hand man. My heart is broken,"

pushed him away with one hand pressed flat against his chest, "Quit messing around, I have something to talk

of the hand I initially placed in his chest, kissing it and he said,

my hand, feigning annoyance as he tried to walk away from me. But I didn't

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