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Chapter 121
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2026-09-27 16:44:04
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Chapter 125ELIMy heart went very loud in my chest."No," I said, and I made my voice sound easy, the way Jules sounds easy even when he is not, "my mum's right around the corner."I kept walking. I did not look back. I did not know if he believed me or if he was even watching me still, and I did not want to find out, so I just kept my feet moving, counting the sidewalk squares now instead of the street signs, until the shop was far behind me and my heart slowed back down to something normal.The hospital had big glass doors and a front desk with a woman behind it who looked up when I came in and her face did the thing adult faces do when they see a kid alone somewhere a kid should not be alone."Sweetheart," she said, already starting to stand up, "are you here with someone?"I had thought about this part already, on the walk, practicing it in my head the way you practice a line before a performance."Julian Hale," I said, clear and
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Chapter 124ELIStory time was about a fox who lost his way home, and I did not hear a single word of it.I was looking at the wall instead. Not at anything on the wall, just the wall itself, the particular pale yellow of it, and I was thinking about the hospital, and about Jules lying there with his ribs broken, and about how many days it had been since I actually saw his face instead of just hearing his voice on Mum's phone.I had brought my notebook.I was not allowed to bring it during lessons. That was a rule, one of the school rules, notebooks and toys stay in your bag during story time, and I had never once broken that rule before, not one single time in the whole time I had gone to this school. I broke it that morning. I kept the notebook tucked under my arm, against my ribs, the whole time, and nobody noticed because I was quiet, and quiet children do not get checked on the same way loud ones do.My teacher noticed something, though. I saw her
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Chapter 123JULIANI called Aria in the afternoon, mostly because lying in that bed with nothing to do but listen to the machines had become its own kind of torture, and mostly, if I am honest with myself, because I wanted to be useful to her again, in whatever small way a broken man in a hospital bed could manage to be useful."How was his first night," I said, once the ordinary hellos were finished."Long," she said. "He didn't sleep well. Neither did I."I asked good questions. I made myself ask them properly, not the quick surface questions that let you off the hook, but the real ones, is he eating, has he said anything about the room, did the nightlight help, and I listened to her answers the way I had been trying to listen lately, without immediately arranging what I heard into a plan.Then she told me about breakfast.She kept her voice careful telling it, flat and neutral in the specific way she used when she did not want her own feelings l
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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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