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Book 8: chapter 32

Author: Uriel Kings
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Aria

The flight is tedious, and the taxi ride after is even more exhausting. They both give me way too much time to think about everything that Jay told me. I’ve developed a new hatred toward my father. I knew he’d done terrible things, but I had always assumed that the people affected by his violence had deserved it in some way.

So, by the time we get to Edoardo’s penthouse, I am eager to see him and tell him that I amnothinglike my father. I want to tell him how sorry I am for everything that my father has put him through. I don’t want him to ever think that I could treat him the same way. But as I walk through the penthouse, it is clear that he hasn’t been here in some time. It’s exactly how we left it. There’s no sign he stopped here at all, even just to drop off his luggage. The bed is still made, just how it was before I left, down to the angle of the cushions.

“He’s not here,” I say to Jay.

“It would appear so,” Jay answers, looking just as confused about it as I am.

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