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CHAPTER 211
~Solstice's POV~
I miss her.
I miss Violet… Valerie Nightshade.
A slight bitter smile formed on my lips just mentally saying her alias.
The car was silent. The darkened windows reflected fragments of light, streetlamps flickering past like dying stars as we sped down the winding road.
I sat in the back seat, hands clasped tightly together in my lap, eyes trained on nothing and everything. The world outside blurred, but the chaos inside me sharpened.
Dad sat beside me, stone-faced. The tension between us was almost a third passenger—thick, choking, unspoken.
The car slowed suddenly and turned onto a secluded path, one only we knew. A few yards ahead, a black limousine sat idling quietly beneath a canopy of trees.
Of course.
He was never going to take me back to the city in the school car.
