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.

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

to 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

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to impress and waving a lollipop in front of his face won’t get him alight again. It would

had to do my duty as the

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

were almost shaken a few times but I had

and this was the only way I could

getting wavered by

to the place and my guards halted when

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

into pieces, leaving

dead bodies

the place from heavily injured people and I

the physicians I brought with me to start on with treatments and urged Gwen to get on

managed to survive like myself, I promised myself that they would never

multiple times. I could

woman holding her injured child getting treated immediately started

the last straw!” She

treat us, even if you do treat us and feed

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

any shaky feeling

I let myself speak.

I stretched out a

else. Every booth and every

my heart warming up

it felt like the heavy wounds on their bodies

continued, letting my words linger and

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will be freely treated and compensated. And I also promise you, you will all never go through

too nice

“Bless your heart”

Thank you so much”

place started to feel hopeful again as

felt proud

being treated, that I was intensely looking at and raised my head to meet Steven’s

something I couldn’t

I held his gaze, his lips

“Thank you

into a s