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BOOK 3 - Chapter 24: Secrets and Lies

Author: Sire Bliss
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-18 13:25:46

~ Next Day ~

"Isabella, sweetheart, you look tired."

I freeze at the sound of that voice, my hand gripping the gallery door handle so tight my knuckles go white. The voice that used to read me bedtime stories. The voice that taught me to appreciate Monet's brushstrokes. The voice that lied about where the rent money went, month after month.

I turn around slowly, like I'm moving through thick honey, and there he is. Marco Moretti, my father, standing on the sidewalk outside the Walton Gallery like he belongs here.

"Dad." The word tastes like ash in my mouth.

He looks older. Thinner. His once-proud shoulders curve inward, and there's a desperate gleam in his dark eyes that makes my stomach twist. The expensive suit he's wearing doesn't fool me, it's probably borrowed or stolen, knowing him.

"You look beautiful, Isabella. Successful." He steps closer, and I catch the faint smell of cheap cologne trying to mask something else. Something that reminds me of the poker rooms he used to disap
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