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2026-01-06 18:10:00“Alonzo, I need five minutes of your time.” Jonas materialized beside me like a corporate ghost as I power-walked toward the elevator, my mind already three steps ahead to tonight’s plans with Allie. Despite being a full head shorter than me, the man had the stride of someone perpetually chasing deadlines.
“Whatever financial crisis you’re about to dump on me can wait until tomorrow,” I said, jabbing the elevator button like it owed me money. “I’m officially off the clock and heading toward significantly better company than quarterly projections.”“I already checked with your assistant. Tomorrow’s a write-off—back-to-back meetings from seven AM until you probably contemplate jumping from your office window around nine PM.” He slipped into the elevator beside me, then fixed his death stare on some poor bastard in a pinstripe suit. “Out. Now. This is private.”“I, uh—yes sir, Mr. Young. Mr. Benington.” The guy practically genuflected before scrambling out, s
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Pressing a hand against my forehead as if that could steady my mind, I stumbled towards the door. Of course, it was locked. What on earth had he locked me in here for? Where had he even gotten the key? The scream. Someone had screamed. Oh god. I leaned my forehead against the cooling wood of the door.Okay, okay, okay, think, Allie. Don’t panic.Julius had said something about the next few weeks, right? That meant, he couldn’t be planning to hand me over to the authorities for impersonating Constance .Whatever he had planned, I knew in my gut that I didn’t want to lie in bed and wait. I had no intention to find outwhatJulius was, as Alonzo had put it.If Alonzo had known-nope. No.Focus.I glanced down at myself. I was in an old, oversized t-shirt that reached down to my knees, that I usually only wore as a nightgown when I knew nobody was going to see me in it. Mostly due to the holes all around the collar. It would have to do, because my legs were too unsteady to
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We hadn’t talked since I’d sent Jonas his way, but his words left little room for protest. The back of my neck prickled, because if he didn’t elaborate in front of his colleagues on why we had to go, my chances of sitting in a chair next to Allie’s bed, waiting for her to wake up, had just slimmed to zero. I signed the discharge form on the dotted line. Immediately the doctor dropped the tweezers on the medical tray and held her hands up in surrender.“Shirt?” Ivanis asked.“Gone.”“Take this until we get to the car.” He shrugged out of his lab coat and tossed it at me. I couldn’t suppress the grimace as the stiff fabric slid over the open wounds on my arm, but it was better than going half-naked, wherever it was we were going. I glanced down at the tattoo marking the inside of his forearm.Il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort.The French version of ‘let sleeping dogs lie’. I hadn’t, and I was about to face the consequences.“Care to tell me what’s happening?” I a
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My head was throbbing,and that goddamn song didn’t stop. Alonzo never listened to music in the morning, and now he had to play that goddamn song. “Can you turn off the music?”“There’s no music, darling,” a woman replied, and I tried to pry my eyes open, because she wasn’t Alonzo , and that goddamn song wouldn’t stop. And not a single person named Alicia ever wanted to hear that goddamn song again. My eyes didn’t open though, and I just sank back into the comforting, warm darkness of Alonzo ’s arms around me and his face snuggled into the crook of my neck while he hummed, so cheesy.“Good song,” I mumbled, tongue heavy.“Good night,” he whispered back.“I swear to God-”“If you don’t hold still, you’ll be meeting God a lot sooner than you might be comfortable with, Mr. Benington .” The white-haired nurse chuckled while holding out a metal container. The doctor dropped another shard into it without saying a word. She’d given up talking to me after the ninth
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I could have only been knockedout for a second, because the airbag was still deflating when I opened my eyes. The adrenaline was pumping through my veins, clearing my thoughts as I assessed the damage to my body (glass shards jutting from my left arm and a throbbing head), then assessed the situation. The car had flipped onto the driver’s side, but it looked like it had been run off the road. Good. No risk of other cars crashing into mine. The windshield was gone, replaced by dry grass and undergrowth. I could crawl out of there if I got myself out of my seatbelt. I reached out, and it released with a snap, dropping me an inch to the ground, into a sea of shards. I didn’t even register the glass cutting through my clothes, because as I pushed myself upright, my eyes caught on a wave of blonde hair streaked with crimson.Because I hadn’t been alone in the car.Moments from before the accident flashed through my mind. Big blue eyes turning from mischief to ice. Smile faltering
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Just this morning I’d thought that the fresh-faced, bikini-clad, summer-morning-Allie was my favorite version of her, but I changed my mind. This, tousled hair, glowing cheeks, towel wrapped around her hips and not a care in the world who might see her tits while she scraped the milk cream off her Oreo? This version was a thousand times better.“So Camila isthe one who taught you to cook?”“Yes,” he replied and pointed at a metal nutcracker contraption thingy hanging on the wall behind me. I twisted around where I sat on the counter and handed it to him. He squeezed a small white nubby vegetable through it. A split second later, the scent of garlic filled the kitchen. Huh. I’d never seen fresh garlic, apparently. “It was, just like reading, a way for me to get away from my mother’s idea of what I should be doing for a while. Georgina never dared to go up against my abuela. That wasn’t a fight she could have won.” He shot me a smile that hinted at just how much he’d admi
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“Your mail,”Victor dropped a stack of envelopes and leaflets at the foot of my bed, all addressed to my studio, which he frequently checked on. This had become routine since I wasn’t supposed to go home.“Thank you.” I grabbed the large, bulky envelope sticking out from the rest. It had the Truman Academy crest on it. I’d signed the work contract digitally, so this had to be my onboarding package. My badge, my map of the school, and whatever else the HR department of one of the country’s most prestigious schools whipped up. I clutched the envelope - and I didn’t want to open it. I should have been tearing through the paper, studying every detail of my schedule, starting a new project book for the school year, picking out my highlighters and ordering new sticky notes.“Everything alright?” Victor asked, his lime green eyes burrowing into me.“Yeah,” I exhaled and turned the envelope around to show him, “it’s work.”“Hmm.” He nodded and turned, no comment or opinion. “
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