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CHAPTER 91: Carlo Comes
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CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 92: Isadora
Marco brought her on a Wednesday morning with the energy of a man presenting something he was extremely proud of and trying very hard not to show how proud he was, which meant he was talking more than usual and gesturing with his good arm and introducing Isadora to the estate like a tour guide who had personal feelings about every room.Isadora let him do it for exactly the right amount of time before she looked at me across the entrance hall with an expression that said she was aware of what he was doing and found it completely endearing and was never going to tell him that.She was tall and dark haired with the kind of direct gaze that made you feel immediately that you were being seen properly rather than just looked at. She shook my hand and said it was good to finally meet me and meant it completely, which was its own kind of thing in a world where people said things they didn't mean as a matter of course."He talks about you constantly," she said, nodding toward Marco."Good thi
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 91: Carlo Comes
He arrived on a Saturday afternoon in a taxi.He stepped out in his good jacket and his slightly crooked tie and looked up at the estate like a man trying to prepare himself for something he had been dreading for a long time.I went down the steps to meet him.He opened his arms and I walked into them and he held on tightly, both arms, chin against the top of my head, the familiar smell of coffee and the soap he had used my entire life."You look well," he said."I am well," I said. "Come inside."He pulled back and looked at my face carefully, the way he had looked at me my whole life when he needed to know I was telling the truth.Whatever he found there settled something in him.He picked up his overnight bag and followed me up the steps.Dante was waiting in the entrance hall.They looked at each other and the whole history between their families sat in the air between them like a third person who had not been invited but had come anyway.Fifteen years of debt. Information passed.
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 90: Anything We Want
The library was exactly what it had always been on a Thursday evening in October, the lamp on the side table casting its warm circle across the floor, the freesia painting catching the light the way it always caught it at this hour, Biscuit on the desk in his permanent position with his tail arranged around his feet and his eyes half closed in the expression of an animal that had achieved complete satisfaction with the conditions of his life and saw no reason to alter them.Dante was at the reading desk with something he had been reading for an hour without turning a page and I was in the armchair with my own book and the evening was doing what evenings did when nothing was pressing in from the edges of them, which was simply being an evening, warm and unhurried and asking nothing of anyone.I had been trying to identify the feeling sitting in my chest for the better part of an hour and had finally arrived at a name for it.Ordinary. It felt completely and entirely ordinary in the spe
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 89: The Strange Quiet
The estate woke up different on the fifth morning after the compound.Not loudly different. Not in any way that announced itself or asked to be noticed. Just quietly and fundamentally different the way things were different when the thing that had been pressing on them from the outside for months had finally stopped pressing and the shape they returned to was something they had almost forgotten was their natural one.No lockdown protocol at breakfast. No Nico appearing in doorways with the careful face he wore when information needed managing before it was delivered. No radio crackling from the corridor. No operational quiet that had weight to it. No vehicles assembling in the drive before the estate had finished waking up. Just Thursday morning arriving through the library windows the way Thursday morning arrived through library windows and asking nothing of anyone.I sat with that for a moment over my coffee and let it be strange.Good strange. Unfamiliar in the specific way of some
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 88: Sophia Leaves
Elena told us at breakfast on a Thursday morning.She came in from wherever she had been and set the bread basket on the table and said it the way she said things that required no ceremony, plainly and without preamble, the way you stated a fact that had been decided somewhere else and had simply arrived here to be acknowledged.Sophia Caruso had been seen loading a car outside her apartment on the east side of the city two days ago. Not a removal company. Not boxes being put into storage. Everything. Her whole life going into a vehicle that left the city heading south and had not come back.Elena said it and then sat down and poured her own coffee and picked up the bread basket and offered it to Marco who was seated beside her with his sling and his appetite and his complete lack of interest in performing any emotion he wasn't actually having.Dante said nothing.I watched his face the way I always watched his face and found what I had not entirely expected to find there, which was n
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 87: Loose Ends
Katya was still in the city on the fourth day after the compound.Dante told me at breakfast without being asked, which was itself something worth noting because in the early weeks of all of this he would have managed information like this carefully, deciding what I needed and what I didn't and delivering only the former. He sat across from me with his coffee and said her name and told me what his people had found and I listened and understood that the telling was its own kind of thing, a continuation of something that had been building since the night he came back and said home.He told me because I had a right to know.Because I was part of this now in a way that went past witness and past captive and past everything the early chapters of us had been."Where has she been," I said."Moving," he said. "Not randomly. She has been in three specific locations in the city over four days and none of them are accidental.""Which locations," I said.He told me the addresses and I held them i
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 28: Sophia Returns
She arrived on a Friday without warning, same as before.I was coming down the main staircase when I saw her in the entrance hall below, already inside, already making herself at home in the specific way that said she considered home to be the operative word. Same polished appearance. Same cream cl
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 24: He Returns
I wasn't supposed to be in the hallway.I had been in bed, or trying to be, lying in the dark staring at the ceiling the way I had been doing on and off for three days while the estate held its breath around me. I had told myself at midnight that I was going to sleep. I had told myself the same thi
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 22: Giulia
I found it on a Wednesday afternoon.I had been working my way along the lower shelves of the library, the ones I hadn't reached yet, pulling books out and reading the inscriptions and putting them back. It had become a habit without my meaning it to, learning the woman who had lived in this room t
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 19: The Truth
Marco was in the sitting room when we found him.He was stretched out on the sofa with a glass of wine and a book open on his chest and he looked up when we walked in with the easy unbothered expression of a man with a completely clear conscience, which told me immediately that he had been expectin
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