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CHAPTER 92
~Zara's POV~
The sound of my phone buzzing pulled me from a hazy sleep. I glanced at the screen, seeing Snow's name lighting up the display. My heart thudded, but I ignored the call, shutting my eyes again as I let the silence settle back into the room.
There was nothing I could say to him right now, nothing that wouldn't make me feel trapped between my family's burdens and the life I'd tried so hard to build independently.
Snow wouldn't understand. He couldn't know the stakes.
And the thought of him trying to fix everything, charging into my family's problems like they were his own, left me feeling too vulnerable to stomach.
I didn't want it and so, I wasn't going to tell him.
The tension still clung to my chest as I drifted back to sleep, trying to let the peace of the early morning calm my mind.
