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Chapter Fifty-Seven: He Calls Nathan at Midnight

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(Damien's POV)

The house had been quiet for eleven days.

Not the ordinary quiet of late evenings or early mornings. The specific total quiet of a house that has been emptied of something it contained for a long time and has not yet figured out what it is without that thing. Vanessa's coat was gone from the hook by the door. Ella's drawings had been taken from the fridge, not all of them, she had left three, the ones she had made specifically for me, a dog and a rainbow and something she had cal
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