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Shadows

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Parts 34
Time 5h 20m

"I'm telling you that I'm not just being paranoid, everything leads to this. You're my best friend, and you have to believe me, I'm not imagining things." 

"No, you always do this, you always play detective, and I'm honestly getting tired of this, when will you stop trying to live in one of your thriller novels? You have to wake up, this is real life and I'm finally happy. Why do you have to do this every time?"

 "I'm not doing anything, even you can't deny that things have been strange from the moment we stepped foot here, I'm afraid. You have seen the notes I got. That person is coming after me next."

"No, I'm done with you and your constant worries. I can no longer keep up with you, so I'm simply done."
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Aurora is a teenage girl who did everything she could to get accepted into her dream university.

Esperanza University.

The university that was supposed to be the gateway to all the dreams she wanted to achieve after graduating. 

Little did she know that it would not be the gateway to anything but to her own personal hell, just like the ones she always reads about in her thriller novels but always thought were too fictional to happen in real life.

Join Aurora in her adventure as she uncovers dark unexpected secrets and faces many enemies all while trying to solve the mysteries that get thrown her way.

Status: completed
Started: 6/9/2020
Finished: 12/5/2021All Rights Reserved

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