Winter in Sicilia was never particularly cold.However, that night, as Damien stood in the empty bedroom, he felt the estate was as cold as a tomb.After I left, he never returned to the master bedroom again.He had people leave my perfume, shawls, and the old lamp beside the table exactly where they had always been, as if keeping everything unchanged would somehow make me walk back through the door one night.But nothing happened for seven days.The secretary delivered every piece of information they could uncover to his desk.Airport surveillance, hotel registrations, flight transfer lists, even lawyer correspondence.However, every clue only confirmed that I had truly left, while never allowing him to catch up to where I actually was.On the eighth day, Luca came down with a fever.The child lay in bed, clutching the wooden gun model, and refused to let go. Even while half-conscious from the fever, he kept calling for his mom.Damien sat beside the bed and stayed awake the
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