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Chapter Sixty-Six: The Fire

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I can’t sleep. Haven’t in days.

I pace the length of my apartment, bare feet against cold concrete, the city lights bleeding in through floor-to-ceiling windows that offer everything except peace. But I like it here.

Because I can think here. Plot here. Rage here.

And lately, that’s all I do.

They’re planning a wedding. Her wedding.

To him.

I dig my fingers into the back of my neck, trying to ease the tension coiled there. It doesn’t help. Nothing does.

The idea of everything is starting to take shape, quiet, sharp, and angry. I can just sit around while I am losing ivy.

I could buy my way out, run out of the end of the earth, buried my head and just live looking behinds my back but none of it matters if she stays trapped in that house.

I press my palm against the window and stare down at the grid of traffic below. Ivy is still there. Inside the mansion. Inside his grip.

I need to get her out . And now, I’m running out of time.

***

I’m not supposed to be digging.

Robert made that cle
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Sometimes silence hides the loudest rebellions. And sometimes, the most dangerous moves are made in shadows. Keep watching. Things are shifting beneath the surface.

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