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Chapter 2
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2026-05-01 02:42:25I had to pull the phone away from my ear because Kate wouldn’t stop screaming, and at this rate, I was sure I’d end up deaf. I had barely told her about the dinner and my mom’s idea when she started overflowing with excitement, as if she’d just won the lottery.
“I can’t believe it! I CAN’T believe it! We’re going to the concert! Your mom said yes!” “Kate, wait—there’s a condition,” I replied cautiously. Truth was, if there were no tickets left, I had no idea how I was going to get out of this. “I know, I know, Cams, but the important thing is that she said yes. I’ll get Jacob’s ticket right now; I’m sure there are still some available. Cams, I’m so happy—I can’t handle this excitement!” «God, if there are still tickets available, it must be for a reason…» “Yes, I’d noticed,” I laughed, picturing her jumping on her bed like a five-year-old. “Thank you so much, Cami, for coming with me.” “Well, you should probably thank Jacob instead. Mom had said no.” “That’s true!” There was a brief silence on the other end of the line before she added, “Wait—I completely forgot in all the excitement that it’s ‘Jacob’. How do you feel about that?” “Hmm… I don’t think I’ve really thought about it,” I admitted. “I was surprised he said yes.” And it was true. I’d been so eager to tell Kate we were going that I hadn’t stopped to think about what it meant to spend time with Jacob—without Mom or Dad around. I don’t think I’d ever been in a situation like that before. The closest thing to ‘hanging out alone’ was waiting together for the three minutes it took popcorn to finish in the microwave, without either of us saying a single word. “Yeah, that was definitely a surprise. I can’t picture Jacob at a concert like this. Does he even know suits aren’t part of the dress code?” That one made me laugh for real. Kate always managed to land a comment that perfectly wrapped up the moment. “I guess we’ll have to wait until Saturday to find out.” “I guess we will!” she exclaimed, her enthusiasm apparently endless. Then she added, “We’re not going to talk about logistics just yet, right?” “We didn’t settle on anything specific, and for now, I’d rather not get into details. At the very least, we should wait until we confirm he actually has a ticket.” “I’m on it—just give me a couple more seconds…” While I waited, my mind began to wander, imagining what it would be like to go to a concert with Jacob, how he would act. “All set. We officially have a ticket for our capeless hero.” “Are we sure we want to do this?” I asked. “Camiiila, obviously we’re super ultra mega sure. It’s Trollex—remember?” «It’s Jacob—remember.» “Well, I’m just saying… just to be one hundred percent sure,” I replied, trying to keep things light. “We’re a thousand percent sure!” Kate answered, far too enthusiastically. I couldn’t take this away from her—not because of my insecurities. We talked a while longer, laughing and saying ridiculous things about it, but as we did, I started to feel a different kind of unease. It was as if, beneath the surface of all that excitement, there was something I couldn’t quite name. A strange, undefined feeling that slowly settled in and followed me every time I thought about Saturday.
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PAUL“Well?” a voice asked from the darkness—rough, unhurried.Paul lit a cigarette. The orange glow briefly outlined his face before sinking back into the shadows.“She will,” he replied, with a calm that wasn’t natural but rehearsed.“What makes you think that?” the man pressed, stepping forward.Paul exhaled slowly, watching the smoke dissolve into the damp air.“She’s just like her mother,” he said, with feigned nostalgia. “Full of hope. Full of compassion.” He paused briefly. “I showed up when she didn’t want to see me… and walked away with a gift. She sent me to rehab. Said it was Susan Porter’s last courtesy.”The other man raised an eyebrow.“I thought your last name was
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The man took a deep breath, as if he had been rehearsing what he was about to say for a long time.“Camila… things got out of control. I didn’t mean to hurt you, and I certainly didn’t want anyone else to hurt you.”I looked at him without rushing. I didn’t feel the urge to interrupt or correct him right away. I let his words settle in the air—clumsy, incomplete, insufficient.“There’s no apology in that,” I said at last, calmly. Not as a reproach, but as a statement.He frowned, uncomfortable, and nodded once, as if that w
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“Good afternoon, Jacob,” Paul said from the doorway, holding a cap in his hands as if it were a useless extension of his guilt. His fingers fidgeted, his voice fragile in a way that inspired not tenderness, but rejection. “I’m sorry to come without notice, but… I’d like to speak with Camila, please.”The silence that followed was dense—almost physical.Jacob took a slow breath, so controlled that I could feel the effort it took for him not to react the way his body wanted to. There was something fierce in him, a righteous violence held back only because I was there.“You can’t be here, Paul,” he said at last, without raising his voice or hesitating. “Camila doesn’t want to see you.”The look he gave him didn’t need volume or threats. It was a sentence.His knuckles, white against the doorfr
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“What did I miss?!” Kate’s voice shattered the moment. Jacob pulled his hands away at once and lowered my blouse, while I silently cursed her timing.“There was a fight, and Camila was collateral damage,” Jacob said in his usual serious tone.Jacob shot Kate a deadly look, but Kate—being Kate—didn’
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