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2025-07-05 00:10:21Anneliese
My grandfather’s name hit me like a punch to the chest.
Leonel Baumann.
The last person in the world I wanted to disappoint, and, ironically, the one I’d been disappointing the most these past few years. He raised me like a princess, but I turned into the hurricane that leaves wreckage everywhere I go.
"Is he okay?" I asked, my throat dry, still wrapped in nothing but the hotel sheet.
Ettore looked at me with the expression of a man who was tired of playing babysitter.
"He hasn’t slept in two days. Thinks you were kidnapped. Or that you jumped off a bridge. You didn’t even answer your phone since you set foot in this city with your l
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