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Chapter Fourteen

Author: Sammy
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The Ruin

Lila

I don’t remember much of the dinner after Vanessa arrived. Her presence sucked the air out of the room.

Every time she laughed, I felt it like a splinter beneath my skin.

Every time Luca looked anywhere but at me, I tasted something sour at the back of my throat.

He didn’t introduce her to me.

Didn’t offer an explanation or a courtesy.

And maybe he didn’t owe me either.

But it felt like he did. It felt like he owed me something and I hated that she had been invited to this dinner tonight. It should have been my coming out party, it should have been about us, yet she was here.

I forced myself to smile through the endless courses. To nod politely when Charles recounted some dull story about their yacht in Capri. To pretend I was exactly who Luca needed me to be, poised, silent, unshakable.

But inside, I was unraveling.

I excused myself twice to the restroom. Both times, I splashed cold water on my face and told myself I was imagining it.

That I was imagining the way Vaness
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