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.

because after so much searching for who could be behind last night’s explosion, they couldn’t find a

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

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easy man to impress and waving a lollipop in front of his face won’t get him alight again. It would anger him more. Sol needed a perfect strategy that would briefly drive his mind from the explosion

first I had to do my duty as the Luna

blouse and a coat, I set out with a few of the

were almost shaken a few times but I had

uncalled for and this was the only way

by the event that

and my

still covered in fading fogs and the place

kiosks were shattered into pieces, leaving no trace of what

seeing multiple dead bodies

people and I tried so hard not to shake, not to

start on with treatments and urged Gwen to get

the place to attend to a lot of people. The ones that had managed to survive like myself, I promised myself that they would never ever get to repeat something as traumatic as

look on their faces broke my heart multiple times. I

injured child getting

last straw!” She

treat us, even if you do treat us and feed us,

carnival was my only source of income,

any shaky feeling

I let myself speak.

ma’am, I stretched

you and everyone else. Every booth and every kiosk and everything ever sold in it would be

warming up when their faces of

the heavy wounds on their bodies

words

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I also promise

too nice Mrs

“Bless your heart”

Thank you so much”

feel hopeful again as multiple

proud

that I was intensely looking at and raised my head to

had something I

I held his gaze, his lips

“Thank you

into a s