Chapter 66

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~~KILLIAN~~

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I don’t know what the hell I’m doing here.

I hate crowds. Hate the way strangers talk like they know you. Hate the endless smiling. The pointless conversations. The artificial pleasantries.

But more than all that, I hate the thought of sitting at my club while some overly polished, pastel-shirted pretty boy slides into Vesper’s life.

So here I am.

At a damn backyard barbecue ho