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

seeds of doubt from my head was to speak

bar,

Odd.

stronhoof words then placed my hands on the glass and peered through the venetian blinds over the glass windows

the stygian shadows and the ghostly outlines of

also led to his office. It was possible that he closed the bar but was still around in his office. The door swung open with a protesting groan, and the neat space seemned vacant and undisturbed until I completely walked into the room and landed my eyes on

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

"Where's Luigi?"

room whilst still in an embrace

so long and the first thing you ask about when we meet is my right hand man.

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

initially placed in his chest, kissing it and he said, "I'm over here, missing you like crazy but you're worried

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

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