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.

been messed with and it was because after so much searching

me a bit that despite yesterday and the little time we spent causing me to see even a fringe smile on his lips had to be ruined by something so

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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

do my duty as

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

almost shaken a few times but

uncalled for and this was the only way

getting wavered by the event that

place and my guards

the place carried the smell of heavy metallic and dried

booth and kiosks were shattered into pieces, leaving

dead bodies lay side by sides like what was

injured people and I tried so hard not

treatments and urged Gwen to get on with

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 could smell

child getting treated

the last straw!”

do not have to treat us, even if you do treat us and feed us, how do

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

any shaky

I let myself speak.

worry, ma’am, I

everyone else. Every booth and every kiosk and everything ever

the place and felt my heart warming up when their

it felt like the heavy wounds on their

I continued, letting my words linger and standing

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and compensated. And I also promise

nice

“Bless your heart”

Thank you so much”

feel hopeful again as multiple gratitudes

felt proud of myself

the child that was being treated, that I was intensely looking at

something I

his lips

“Thank you

into a s