77. Edge

Rowan Valentino

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"Are you sure we should be here without telling her first?" I asked my brother, halting his fist that was about to meet the door.

"We called her numerously and she didn't answer. We don't have another choice."

"Who knows what she could be doing?"

"Exactly. Who knows?" He emphasized. When he came back home this morning, he told me that Cassie was pretty bummed out yesterday. It annoyed me to find out that she was feeling that way because of her excuse of a mother but there wasn't much we could do about it.

"Fine."

As soon as the word left my lips, he knocked on the door before pressing the doorbell.

It took seconds before the door was pulled open. It was Justina.

She wrapped her arms around Matteo's waist and did the same to me.

"We brought something for you," I told her and she grinned with enthusiasm.

"What is it?"

I nodded to Rowan and he handed the wrapped box to her.

I could see the curiosity on her face as she took the box from him. "Thank you so much!" Then,