Chasing The Rejected

Chapter 81

-CLARA-

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How could I open my eyes and the first thing I could see was the explosion of last night happening before me.

Despite falling asleep after making a grand escape from yesterday’s chaos thanks to Daman, I woke up and I felt totally disconnected from everything, like I was not really here. I couldn’t shake the feeling that something terrible like that happened.

The world around me was slowly coming back into focus, but everything felt different. But it was also like I was seeing it for the first time.

My body felt heavy and slow like I was wading through mud.

My thoughts were racing and I tried to breathe properly through my nose.

This was torture.

The explosion was all I could recall from last night and

nd the fact that I was waking up at exactly dawn which meant I passed out last night.

I opened the door to my y room and two tall men, broad and wide hanging on each side of my door stopped me from going any further.

“Who are you?” I shrieked at both of them.

Before any of them could make a sound, Luca’s voice echoed from behind me.

“Did they startle you?” He asked.

I turned around swiftly, “who are they?”

“They’re few of your new guards now,” Luca replied.

“Guards?” I tried to breathe.

“Yes. Damon has enforced more protection around you because of what happened last night. The event left you quite in another dimension. You were barely here with us despite getting home”

I nodded, understanding Damon’s intention.

“So expect to be followed around more cautiously. As Damon has pointed me to investigate more on the explosion, we don’t know where it came from or what location at the carnival it took off. So you need to be careful,” Luca addressed.

“Okay thanks” I breathed. Tossing away any brief image of last night that was trying to hinder my morning.

The air around the house became straight. Everyone hardly smiled and when they managed to get a hold of my gaze, they would look at me like I was the most pitiful thing they have ever seen.

Damon was busy the entire time, his cold expression had turned solemn and hard, mixed with anger and frustration.

could tell his mood had been messed with and it was because after so much searching for who could be behind last night’s explosion, they couldn’t

and the little time we spent causing me to see even a fringe smile on his lips had to

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in front of his face won’t get him alight again. It would anger him

to do my duty as

jumper, a white blouse and a coat, I set out with a few of the house maids and my many guards to the place

almost shaken a few times but I had to

in life were uncalled for and this was the only way I could write the uncalled

wavered by the event that

and my guards halted when

was still covered in fading fogs and the place carried the smell of heavy metallic and

and kiosks were shattered into pieces, leaving

multiple dead bodies lay side

and I tried so hard not

on with treatments and urged

moved around the place to attend to a lot of people. The ones that had managed to survive

heart multiple times. I could smell their fear,

injured child getting treated immediately started to

was the last straw!” She

us and feed us,

for the carnival was my only source of income, and now

to conceal any

I let myself speak.

worry, ma’am, I stretched

everyone else. Every booth and every kiosk and everything ever

and felt my heart warming

like the heavy wounds on their bodies felt like

my words linger and standing my

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be freely treated and compensated. And I also promise you, you will

too nice Mrs

“Bless your heart”

Thank you so much”

started to feel hopeful again as multiple gratitudes filled the

proud

looking at and raised my

had something I couldn’t quite

I held his gaze, his lips pressed

“Thank you

into a s