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31. Vulnerability

Author: Karen Moon
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-06 12:40:18

The next day was more chaotic than I could have predicted.

After spending an entire day inside the bedroom, rarely leaving for anything other than clinging to each other like two animals in heat, Masato and I went back to avoiding discussions about things like feelings, emotions, and other complications. Now, we were focused on my mission inside the Braxter mansion – and, of course, on how to avoid our new gangster enemies. Well, my new enemies, since they obviously already knew Masato.

I was sitting at the kitchen table, having breakfast before heading to Thomas’s house, when I asked Masato:

“What can you tell me about them?”

The businessman glanced at me sideways, momentarily ignoring the open newspaper in his hands.

“Who?”

“The Blue Falcons.”

Masato audibly scoffed. Those were the first words we’d exchanged all day. When we woke up, after staring at each other in bed for a long time, Masato had simply gotten up, leaving me alone with my thoughts. He was probably as lost as I was.

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