Chapter 236

Chapter 236

KESTER.

It felt like death was licking at my heels.

The sky outside had been brooding all day-clouds thick and grey. Fiting perfectly with my mood. Almost like the universe knew it, too, that this wasn't a celebration. This was like me attending my own funeral.

My room was quiet and tense. The kind of silence you feel in your gut.

Norlan was seated at the edge of the couch, his palms pressed together and his eyes distant. He looked like he'd just walked out of a car crash. And truth? I didn't look or feel any better.

I stood in front of the mirror, fixing my tie with fingers that wouldn't fucking stop shaking. Each tug felt like it was tightening a noose around my own neck.

Fuck.

I'd never been this nervous in my life. Not even when I was wrongly diagnosed and taken to the psychiatric ward years ago. Not when I gave my first speech in front of the board. Not even when I kissed Kasmine for the first time.

This was different.

was my body revolting. My heart knew this wasn't

Kasmine.

anger and sadness radiating off of me could burn down an entire

the woman I love.

aren't the one getting

a man who had lost his purpose in life.

wishes to be the one in my place at this

dickhead? Come on. We have just about an hour before the event starts," He

us looked perfect. We just looked like two

fingers dropped from the tie,

get it?" I

still alone. Then

between two fingers. "Encrypted, Triple-layered. You'd need a god to crack it... or

I stared at him instead... The man who used to hack into our

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seriously that he'd take it to be a

sure it's solid?" I asked in a

Proxy companies tied to human smuggling rings in the Balkans. He thought he could scrub it clean. But that dumb fuck hired some of my old crew two years ago. I

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