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.

mood had been messed with and it was because after so much searching for who could be behind

lift Damon’s mood so bad. If arched me a bit that despite yesterday and the little time we spent causing me to see even a fringe smile

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face won’t get him alight again. It would anger him more. Sol needed a perfect strategy that would

first I had to do my duty as the Luna

with a few of the house

shaken a few times but

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

wavered by the event that

place and

covered in fading fogs and the place carried the smell of heavy

kiosks were shattered into pieces, leaving no trace of

started to ache seeing multiple dead bodies lay

still took over the place from heavily injured people and I tried so hard not to shake, not

on with treatments and urged Gwen to get on with dispensing of

to survive like myself, I promised myself that

broke my heart multiple times. I could smell their fear, their despair and

her injured child getting treated

the last straw!” She

us and feed us,

carnival was my only source of income, and now I’ve

my lips together to conceal any shaky feeling that would

I let myself speak.

worry, ma’am, I stretched

you and everyone else. Every booth and every

felt my heart warming up when their faces of despair

the heavy wounds on their bodies felt like nothing as

my words linger and

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treated and compensated. And I also promise

nice Mrs

“Bless your heart”

Thank you so much”

to feel hopeful again as

proud

looking at

I couldn’t

his gaze, his

“Thank you

into a s