Chapter 1626

“Alright,” he finally said, after a thoughtful pause.

“You don’t need to be so sad.

Perhaps Holden didn’t die.

He and Adrian had jumped out of the car with me just seconds before the car exploded.

Bennett hoped his words would elevate Ariana’s mood, yet she remained impassive, entrenched in her own thoughts without a hint of change.

Bennett strained his ears but discerned no sound.

A sudden concern gripped him-perhaps she had passed out.

With effort, he propped himself up and reached over to gently shake her.

At last, she moved and looked up, her eyes brimming with tears, red and swollen.

Nonetheless, she resisted the urge to cry, resolved not to show her tears in his presence.

“Wait, are you actually crying? I didn’t do anything to you! Why the tears?” Bennett was utterly perplexed, rambling without clarity.

He could only watch Ariana, longing for her to revert to her typically spirited self-fiery and confrontational, anything but tearful.

Ariana stopped hiding her face and locked eyes with Bennett, maintaining her silence.

“Alright, I’ll take you to find those two guys.

please, no

loss if you continue like this,” Bennett conceded after a

guidelines-no violence against me, and

his proposal, a flicker of hope sparked in Ariana, but she swiftly masked her reaction, her gaze sharpening

this

or leave

” Bennett smirked.

“Trust but verify.

trust me,

like I said before, you won’t make it out of

this time,” Ariana replied,

tie you to a

have a

my side,” Bennett teased, undisturbed by

resorted to violence

dreaming! Just get up

alright,” Bennett responded with

a broken leg, so I

sturdy branch to serve

his leg, adjusting

was indeed

get moving, she squatted down to examine it more closely, confirming it was indeed a fractured ankle with a

telling

to

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