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The sharpest assessment.

Author: Taniamalloye
last update Last Updated: 2024-12-25 15:29:24

I say awkwardly in the passenger seat of the car, my shoulder firmly pressed against the door, my eyes planted on the window.

It came to me as a surprise when Jacopo told me that he would drive me to the Smith Mansion himself. Although I was surprised, I was not about to look at a gift horse in the mouth. It didn't take me a full five minutes to change out of my clothes and tie my knotted hair into a messy bun. I slipped my white flats on and left the walk-in closet with a final cast on the only sock I had that was torn when I ran on them with no shoes on.

Jacopo was waiting for me in front of the elevator, his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes looking into the distance, calculating whatever equations he had in his head. Despite looking like he was deep in thoughts, he noticed me limping over to him out of the corner of his right eye, and put the codes into the panel to call the elevator up.

My initial plan was to sit in the back seat of the car, as far away from Jacopo as poss
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