[Violet]
I panicked.
“What do you mean I picked her up?” My voice came out sharper than intended, and I took a full step forward. “I-I just got here.”
The teacher blinked at me, a nervous crease folding between her brows. “You picked her up. Half an hour ago.”
She said it like that was supposed to make sense. Like repeating it would make it true. But I had spent the last few hours at the cafe and with Lucien.
But then the first thought that crossed my mind—the doppelgänger drama I thought we left behind. It couldn’t be a coincidence that Raye disappeared the exact day Lucien returned. I wanted to deny it, chalk it up to paranoia. But my gut was screaming at me.
Still… it couldn’t be Lucien himself who took her. And Lucien didn’t usually hide his crimes—he wasn’t the type to sneak.
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