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Chapter 52: The Knife

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Ava

~~~

I’m going to sleep with my ex.

I think about this for the next three days and struggle with it through all my daily activities.

Remembering what I’ll gain by doing so, Oliver’s life and my safety, makes me feel a little better, but looking at Leonel since the day I decided I would sleep with my ex is almost too much for me.

I never confirmed it to him, and he never asked, but the silence that has settled between us since that day speaks for itself.

It’s been three days, meaning we have three days until we have to host the Soirée, and the gathering itself is one of the only distractions I welcome.

We go to the event hall to monitor the setup of the Soirée, then the hospital to monitor Oliver’s increasing progress, and finally, by the time we get back home, it’s too late for either of us to have “the conversation” about me having sex with my ex, so we say goodnight and part ways.

The only thing he did other than this was finally shut down the cameras in my room, and the wave of
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