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Chapter 56 - Losing the Lead

Author: Stephanie Benedict
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-25 11:52:53

Damon

I watch her walk off.

Something is definitely up with her. In all the weeks she’s spent here, in this house, she’s never wandered out to this part of the estate. She’s always either locked up in her room, quiet as a shadow, or bickering with Eunice over which vase belongs in which hallway. Never this.

But tonight, she walked with purpose. Not angry. Not storming off. Just quiet. Deliberate. It throws me off.

The second I caught sight of her slipping through the glass doors that lead to the garden, something in me reacted. Instinct, maybe. Habit, maybe worse. My legs moved before my brain finished forming the question: What the hell is she doing out there?

She didn’t answer me. Not really. The usual retorts, the pushbacks. But this time, it didn’t feel like she was pushing me away just for sport. Something else is sitting beneath the surface.

She’s hiding something.

And the maddening part?

I can’t tell what.

But, how hard could it be to spill?

'Spill? To you?' the voice in my hea
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