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Chapter Seventy-Four The Uninvited Ghost

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Antonioni's POV

She had rehearsed it. I could see it in the way she entered, measured, restrained, like her breath carried a script she’d rewritten ten times in her head. The slight bite of her lower lip was no accident. She was trying to soften the blow. Make it feel like a question when she already knew what she wanted.

I sat there, glass in hand, tasting the sharp weight of the day. Swirling that golden poison because some nights, silence begged for company. I saw her come in, but I didn’t
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