Marsai:
Her eyes snapped wide.
“Huh? Wait..what do you mean followed? By who?” The questions tumbled out in a single breath, her eyes darting between me and the rearview mirror.
I shook my head before glancing over my shoulder. “I’m not sure. But check out that car behind us. it's been trailing—”
The words caught in my throat. I blinked hard.
Gone.
The road behind us was empty. No car. Nothing.
What the hell?
“But there’s no one there, Marsai,” Dessie said, squinting like I hadn’t already seen it myself.
I turned to her, my voice tight. “I swear, there was a car. Purple. It had been on our tail for at least five minutes—”
The look she gave me. Brows pinched. Lips pressed and ‘that is-this-girl-losing-it?’ kind of stare—made the rest of my explanation die in my mouth.
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