Chapter 96

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To no one's surprise. The woman called Donovan's bluff and didn't come back outside. After that, we spent more than fifteen minutes standing.

The sky was already starting to become dark as the sun had set a few minutes ago, and we were still standing here.

Donovan, the clueless being that he is, had the gall to act surprised that his threat and namedrop didn't work.

Was I surprised? No. Did I expect it to happen? Yes.

But I didn't tell him that, he looked broken enough from not getting his plan to work out.

The backup I asked for arrived five minutes ago. And they were just waiting for my order to go in. I don't know what is making me hesitate. I know Adriana is in there. On any other day, I would have stalked in there and thrown her over my shoulder.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Donovan growls in frustration.

He has a plan of going in there and getting the woman who had played him. A