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2026-09-25 00:01:03Chapter 115
JULIAN"It's the practical answer," I said. "I'm not saying it because I want it. I'm saying it because Eli needs to be somewhere safe, and pretending there's a version of safety that doesn't involve him is a luxury we don't have anymore."She did not say anything for a long moment.I kept my eyes on the blanket, on the small mechanical rise and fall of the monitor readout beside the bed, on anything except her face, because I could feel what this cost me build
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Chapter 122ELIThe kitchen smelled like eggs when I woke up, the good kind, the kind that meant someone had actually tried, and I lay in the unfamiliar bed for a minute deciding whether trying counted for anything.I decided it did not.I got dressed by myself, the way I always did, and I found Mum already awake in the little sitting room part of our wing, and we walked down together to where the smell was coming from, and I brought my notebook with me even though I was not planning to write in it.I just wanted it there.The kitchen was big. Bigger than any kitchen I had ever eaten breakfast in, with a table that could have fit ten people even though it was only going to be three of us, and Adrian was standing near the counter instead of sitting, which I noticed right away because grown-ups do not usually stand around waiting like that unless they are nervous about something.He was nervous about me.I decided I liked that he was ner
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Chapter 121ADRIANI opened the drawer.Not the one with the ring, though my hand went toward that drawer first, out of habit, before I redirected it to the one beside it, the one that had, over the last two days, begun filling with something else entirely. Files. Printouts. The quiet accumulation of Ethan's private investigation, running parallel to the police the way I had insisted it should, against his own careful advice.I called him.He answered on the first ring, the way he always did at hours like this, as though he had simply stopped expecting normal sleep for the duration of whatever this was."I need a name," I said. "I need to know who hates me enough to do this."There was a pause on his end, the particular pause of a man deciding how much to say and in what order."I don't have a name yet," he said. "I have categories. It may be more useful to start there.""Go on," I said."Business rivals," he said. "The last decade, specifically. Several acquisitions where the terms w
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Chapter 120ARIAEli did not look out the window once during the whole drive.He sat with his arms crossed and his jaw set in the particular stubborn shape I had come to recognize over five years, and every time I glanced over he was staring at the back of the seat in front of him, refusing the city as it slid past, refusing the whole idea of where we were going by refusing to watch it arrive.I did not fight him on it. I had nothing left to fight with. The last two days had used up whatever reserves I usually drew on for gentle negotiation, and I let him have his silent protest, his small closed fortress of crossed arms, because it was the only thing left he had any control over, and I understood, distantly, that control was exactly what all of this had taken from both of us.The house came into view slowly, the way large things do, revealing itself in pieces through the trees along the drive before the whole shape of it settled into view.It was not w
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Chapter 119ADRIANI did not examine, out loud, why I had answered so quickly. But sitting there after the call ended, I made myself look at it honestly, the way I had been trying, with mixed success, to look at most things honestly since the corridor at the Meridian.I was afraid of what it would mean if Aria walked into that room.Not afraid of the room itself, the dust and the silence and whatever preserved grief lived in it. Afraid of her face. Afraid of watching her stand in a space built entirely around a woman she had no memory of being, surrounded by a piano she might or might not still know how to play in the specific way Elena had played it, letters in handwriting that was technically her own and would feel, I suspected, like reading a stranger's diary. Afraid that the room would either mean nothing to her, which would confirm how completely Elena had been erased, or that it would mean everything, some deep unconscious recognition rising up the way th
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