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.

messed with and it was because after so much searching for who could be behind last night’s

the little time we spent causing me to see even a

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an 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 to

had to do my duty as the Luna

a few of the house maids and my

grounds were almost shaken a few times but I had to stand

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

wavered by the event that

and my guards halted

fogs and the place carried the smell

booth and kiosks were shattered into pieces, leaving no trace of what they

bodies lay side by sides like

from heavily injured people and I tried so hard not to shake, not to dare shed

the physicians I brought with me to start on with treatments and urged Gwen to get on with dispensing of the light food

moved around 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

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

woman holding her injured child getting treated

was the last straw!”

us, even if you do treat us and feed us, how do we continue to

my only source of

to conceal any shaky feeling

I let myself speak.

not worry, ma’am, I stretched out a

and every kiosk and

and felt my heart warming up when their faces

their bodies felt like nothing

continued, letting my words

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be freely treated and compensated. And I also promise

nice Mrs

“Bless your heart”

Thank you so much”

again as multiple gratitudes filled

proud

from the child that was being treated, that I was intensely looking at and raised my head to meet Steven’s eyes wandering over

had something I couldn’t quite

held his gaze, his

“Thank you

into a s