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Chapter 8: The Headache
"A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination or a headache."
-Catherine The Great-
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As soon as Victoria got back home, she quickly headed over to the restroom to throw up. The image of what happened was still fresh on her mind.
She might not grow up in the most peaceful, harmonious environment, but it was the first time she had ever seen something so violent in her life.
It was too much. The sight of blood was enough to turn her stomach upside down. However, what Ian did, killing another man so easily. It frightened her.
“What in the world did I just see?” She murmured to herself. She spent quite sometime in the bathroom, trying to pull herself together. Before, she was too shocked to even react. When her mind cleared up a bit, she took a deep breath and wondered what she should do.
Ian was right, she couldn’t go to the police and told them what just happened. She was in
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