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LUKE'S POV.

I drove without much strength, feeling my hopes dwindle. I'd been too late. She'd gone before I even got there. If only I'd thought of Sundial town before anything else, then maybe I'd have found her, and apologized again.

My situation was a hard and horrible one, and I didn't even know if I was worthy of her forgiveness.

I could still remember my shock when Mrs. Song told me the crazy mission Ari was up to.

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'Ariana went to find her coven!? She's not letting them find her instead?' I'd asked, my eyes blazing with horror.

'She seems to.be really mad at the whole thing because she refuses to let go. She keeps having what-ifs. What if you didn't kill her parents that day? Would her life be any better?'

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