A DITCH AT THE END OF THE WORLD~ALESSANDRO'S POV~The screen turned black, but I couldn't stop seeing Giselle's face. She looked so empty, like the truth I had been trying to ignore for eleven years was all over her.I sat on the edge of the bed in that rotting, salt-stained house, the burner phone feeling like a lead weight in my hand, and for a second, the only thing I could hear was the desperate, shitty beat of my own heart trying to beat its way out of my broken ribs."Boss? We need to move before the air in here turns into a permanent memory, because the perimeter is clear but they're long gone, and we're wasting time standing in a graveyard," Luca said, his voice coming from the doorway, cautious and low, like he was afraid that if he spoke too loudly, I would finally snap and turn the gun on myself."She called me a monster, Luca," I whispered, the words leaking out of me like blood from an open wound, and the worst part wasn't that she said it, but that for the first time i
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