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Chapter 219

“What’s wrong?” I asked in a raspy voice that didn’t sound like my

own.

“We need to talk about a few things before we go further,” Alexander said and cupped my face, gently stroking my skin with his thumb.

For some reason, I thought he was talking about money. “Well, how much money are we talking about?”

This made his expression close off and he pulled his warm hand away from my face. “Forget it,” he said in a stiff voice and gently moved me aside so that he could get off the ground. As he stood, he brushed leaves and twigs off his body. “It’s late. We should get back to the hotel.”

Clumsily, I got to my feet and staggered to the side. As I stumbled after him, confusion washed over me. What had I done wrong? From the way he was walking twenty feet ahead of me and his tense posture, I knew that I had offended him in some way, but I wasn’t sure how.

onto the elevator, as if I was in a trance. My skin was tingling and my head felt fuzzy as if someone had stuffed it

bag without a word, and walked out of the elevator. I had to trail my hand against the wall

struggled to get the keycard into the slot for about

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fell out of my hand, and I experienced the strangest out–of–body experience. It was like I was floating above my body and

the couch and collapse onto it. In the back of

understand and she gently shook my shoulders, but all I could do was stare at the ceiling and try not to let the overwhelming darkness in

*Olivia*

to fight it off so that I could focus on what Ava was saying. Finally, I managed to sit up. Ava ran to get me a bottle of water from the mini fridge,

happened?” Ava asked, her eyes wide with

I told her everything that had happened between Alexander and me tonight. Even how we had made out under an oak tree after we ran through a bamboo forest. As I said it out loud, it sounded like I had

my story, Ava’s shoulders slumped, and her face relaxed. “Don’t scare me like that!” she scolded and gently swatted my thigh. “I thought that you robbed a bank or

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