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LUCIEN’S POV
I left with the woods in sight, running as fast as I could because Monica was crazy and would do anything to hurt Adria. Thinking of it, the look on her face on the night we spoke before Adria went missing wasn’t one of hurt.
It was an expression that got stronger and stronger with each word. Looking back at it, it seemed she was making the decision in her mind while I did the talking and there I was over the last two days, thinking happily that she had left New Orleans because I had told her to.
My guts told me she had done serious preparation to kidnap Adria since I wasn’t sure she’d ever had to kidnap a person before.
People I passed by stared at me in surprise as it was quite uncommon to see a grown man like me running all by himself. It wasn’t even the time where
