Chapter 176 Inside Me

TESSARA

I had never felt so exposed in my life.

Tonight, in the glow of flickering fluorescent lights and the oppressive warmth of too many bodies pressed into too small a pharmacy, I felt stripped bare.

I thought it would be easy. I slipped out under the cover of night, hood over my head, scarf tucked tightly to my neck, and picked the most nondescript place possible. Far from Astraea-Order, far