SHAWN“Aren’t you going to the house with me?”I looked over at my mother, sitting beside me in the dim interior of the car, and genuinely wondered if she had gone completely senile. I didn't answer her. Instead, I turned away, looking straight ahead at the asphalt, and flatly gave the driver the address of my private apartment.I couldn't go back to the main family estate. At least not today. Not after enduring a day this heavy, this suffocatingly brutal. Firstly, because I simply didn't want to; I needed to be entirely alone, far away from her frantic panicking and her endless, badgering questions. Secondly, my grandfather would quite literally skin me alive if he caught even a glimpse of my face at the house right now.My mother repeated the question, her voice rising in pitch. I ignored her again, staring blankly out the window. I didn't say a single syllable even when the car finally pulled up to the curb of my building. I pushed the door open, stepped down onto the pavement,
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