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Chapter 11

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The movie was still playing, flickering shadows across the walls. I couldn’t even remember what it was about—some comedy with bright colors and hollow dialogue.

I wasn’t laughing.

I was curled on the couch with Aaron, my head resting on his shoulder, both legs draped lazily over his lap.

He rubbed slow, absentminded circles on my shoulder like he always did when I was tense.

But then… I felt it.

The stillness.

That uncanny, impossible stillness that swept in and stole the warmth from the room. The air shifted, thickened. It was like gravity changed its mind, like the walls inhaled and forgot how to breathe again.

He was here.

I didn’t need to turn around to know it or to hear a door creak or the sound of his shoes on the floor.

I could feel him—his presence bleeding into every crack of the house like heat and danger. A phantom that haunted my spine.

Enzo.

Maybe he’d gone straight to his room. Maybe he hadn’t seen us.

But that wasn’t possible.

He always saw. Even when he pretended
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