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.

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

that despite yesterday and the little time we spent causing me to see even a fringe smile on

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

first I had to do my

a coat, I set out with a few of the

shaken a few

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

wavered by the

place and my guards halted when I

fading fogs and the place carried the smell of heavy metallic

shattered into pieces, leaving no trace of

bodies lay side

over the place from heavily injured people and I tried so hard not to shake, not to dare shed a

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

place to attend to a lot of people. The ones that had managed to survive like myself, I

broke my heart multiple

her injured child getting treated immediately started

was the last straw!”

even if you do treat us and feed us,

my only source

pursed my lips together to conceal any shaky feeling that would

I let myself speak.

ma’am, I stretched out a

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

warming

on their bodies felt like nothing as they looked

letting my words linger

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I also promise you, you will all never go through

nice Mrs

“Bless your heart”

Thank you so much”

feel hopeful again as multiple

felt proud

that was being treated, that I was intensely looking at and raised my

had something I

I held his gaze, his lips

“Thank you

into a s