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Chapter 22
AS LONG AS YOU’RE SAFE
It took me a few tears and tantrums before Kristoff allowed me to visit Hunter. He just wouldn’t budge. I told him I won’t take long, I even promised, but he just wouldn’t blink. He even wouldn’t flinch. And I don’t get why he is too stoic about this thing. He feels so possessive. But hey, he isn’t showing any affection or any emotion about it either.
But then, I shot a tantrum and didn’t talk to me and poof! He agreed in an instant.
“Three minutes, Shan. I’ll be waiting for you for three minutes.” He warned me as we stand in front of Hunter’s room door.
I nodded. “I know,” I replied.
He has been repeating that instruction for the thousandth time and I have grown tired of it already.
He sighed and gave me my phone. “Take this,” he said. “When that rings, it means your time’s up.”
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