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106 Kabanata

NINETY ONE

CHARISSAMy mother settled into the chair with the care of a woman who had never once sat on furniture that cost less than a month’s rent. She crossed her ankles, the Italian leather of her heels catching the fluorescent light, and placed her handbag on her lap like a pet she was afraid to let wander. Her fingers drummed once against the clasp, a nervous habit she would never acknowledge, before she fixed me with that look.The one that had made me confess to stealing lip gloss at twelve, smoking cigarettes at fifteen, and sleeping with the photographer’s assistant at nineteen.“Who was that boy?” she asked, her voice carrying that particular Athenian lilt that turned questions into accusations.I adjusted the thin hospital blanket, pulling it higher over my chest, suddenly aware of how badly the gown gaped at the neck. “An acquaintance.”“An acquaintance.” She repeated the word as though she were tasting something spoiled. “He had quite the attitude walking out. Shoulders back, jaw s

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NINETY TWO

CHARISSAThe question came out ragged, torn from somewhere I usually kept locked. "If I had Gregor, maybe… But… But… Gregor doesn’t want me anymore. The only way to get him back is to separate them, and I need dirt for that. But so far I have nothing. The new girl… That Attica trailer trash slut is careful. She’s guarded. She’s got nothing I can use."My mother’s lip curled. "How they get them is how they lose them, Charissa. She stole him from you, so steal him back." She reached out, her fingers surprisingly gentle as she adjusted the blanket, but her eyes remained hard as marble. "Your father did try to get me back eventually. After the novelty wore off, after the younger woman proved to be more trouble than she was worth. He came crawling back with flowers and apologies. It was I who refused him. But only after I did my best to know if I had lost him to that woman completely. That validation drove me. It gave me enough of an ego boost to tell him to go to hell." She leaned closer,

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NINETY THREE

JUSTINAThe Rossi special turned out to be some kind of lamb, slow-cooked until it fell apart under my fork, sitting in a pool of something dark and glossy that tasted like red wine and rosemary had gotten into a fight and both won. I closed my eyes on the first bite, purely by instinct, and heard Gregor make a small, satisfied sound across the table."Well?" he asked, though the smugness in his voice made it clear he already knew the answer."Don't," I warned, pointing my fork at him. "Don't you dare say I told you so.""I wasn't going to say anything.""Your whole face said it.""My face is very expressive. I can't control that." He nudged his plate an inch toward me, the octopus glistening under the low light, char marks striped across it like something branded. "Try mine.""I said no to the octopus for a reason.""You said no to ordering it. That's different from trying a bite of it." He speared a piece and held it out across the table, patient, and in the same breath, insufferabl

Huling Na-update : 2026-10-05

NINETY FOUR

JUSTINAHis jaw tightened."You don't know anything about my life anymore, Justina. You don't know what I've done, what I've built, or what it took to get here." His gaze dropped briefly to my dress before returning to my face. "I mean… look at you… You're here… You are here in a dress that surely costs more than any of our old apartment's rent for a year or two back at Attica. I even looked up that man. You are dating a Vallis, and somehow I'm the one who needs to explain how I got somewhere nice?""Liam, I never said you didn't deserve this.""You didn't have to." His laugh was quiet, without much humor in it. "I know that look. I've seen it before. You should know it too.""What look?""As if we have gotten somewhere we are not supposed to be.""I am sorry," I managed. "I did not mean to be so callous."I did have more to say, but I didn't have the energy or the time to untangle that particular knot with him, and honestly I didn't want to hand him my whole life story yet, not with

Huling Na-update : 2026-10-06

NINETY FIVE

GREGORI spotted Frank the moment he pushed through the front door. He wore that brown leather jacket he refused to retire, the one with the sleeves riding up just enough to show the watch his father left him, and he scanned the room with the lazy alertness of a man who was technically off-duty but never actually off. His eyes found mine across the dining room, and I knew I had to move before he opened his mouth and announced himself to the entire restaurant.I set my fork down against the plate, the metal clicking against porcelain, and looked across the table at Justina. She was watching the fire pit behind me, her profile sharp in the low light, and I reached out to touch her hand where it rested on the tablecloth."I need to use the bathroom," I told her.She turned back, her eyebrows lifting slightly. "You couldn't have waited five more minutes? I was about to say something devastatingly romantic.""I have complete faith you'll still remember it when I get back."I stood, straigh

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NINETY SIX

GREGORFrank stopped. His eyes widened slightly. "Fuck. You didn't know.""No. I didn't know. Is she fine? Is she...""She's fine. She's in the hospital. She'll live. But back to what I was saying... if she didn't ask for your help, if she didn't tell you she was falling apart, do you not think it wasn't your place to make that choice for her? To decide what she could handle and what she couldn't?"I stared at him. The hallway seemed to tilt slightly, or maybe that was just my blood pressure spiking. Charissa… Pills... Instagram... The images assembled themselves in my mind, ugly and sharp. I thought about the blocked calls, the messages I'd ignored, the way I'd cut her off completely because it was cleaner that way. Because it protected Justina. Because it protected me."Ehhhh… About Charissa… you are sure that she's alive?" I asked quietly."Yes. She's alive. A friend found her, from what I heard. But Gregor, listen to me." Frank stepped closer again, his voice dropping to a rough w

Huling Na-update : 2026-10-07

NINETY SEVEN

GREGORI swirled the last of the wine in my glass and watched the legs slide down the crystal in slow, red tears. The octopus had vanished from my plate, leaving a smear of charred oil and lemon. Across the table, Justina pushed a final bite of lamb around with the tines of her fork, her movements loose and unhurried. The champagne and a little bit of red wine had softened the sharp line of her shoulders, and her eyes held that glassy brightness that meant she was three drinks past careful and not yet sloppy.The strap of her blue dress had slipped down her arm, and she had not bothered to fix it. I had noticed. Every man in the room with working eyes had probably noticed, and like the gentleman that I was, I reached out to fix it."You keep looking over there," Justina said. Her voice had that lilt one could only get when the wine had warmed their throat. She did not lift her gaze from her plate. "Like you're trying to set someone on fire with your mind."I set my glass down harder t

Huling Na-update : 2026-10-07

NINETY EIGHT

GREGORI kept my hand at the small of her back, my palm burning against the silk, and let my eyes find Liam's table as we approached the exit. He looked up when we passed, his fork hovering in midair.Justina lifted her hand in a small wave, her fingers fluttering once, then twice before she dropped it. I watched Liam's face break into an easy grin, one that had probably worked on her seven years ago, and he answered with a slight nod.I did not break stride. I kept my arm around her and guided her forward, but when she turned her head to say something to me, I glanced back over my shoulder. Liam was still watching. I held his gaze for three full seconds, long enough to tell him I saw him, long enough to tell him he was welcome to think whatever he wanted as long as he never acted on it.His smile faltered. Something harder moved behind his eyes, and he still did not look away.I turned back to the exit and pressed my hand more firmly into her spine to further send my message. Justina

Huling Na-update : 2026-10-08

NINETY NINE

GREGORJustina leaned across the center console, her cheek almost pressed against my shoulder as she peered at the back seat. "It's open. You're right. It's definitely open."I pulled the car over to the shoulder, the tires crunching on gravel. I put it in park and turned to face her, letting my expression shift from concern to realization. "Someone broke in. While we were eating. They must have been looking for something valuable, reached in, popped the glove box, and stole the phones."Her face went pale in the dashboard light. "The valet. It had to be the valet. He had the keys. He knew where we were sitting. He could have..." She was reaching for the door handle, her fingers scrabbling at the latch. "We need to go back. We need to find him. I'm going to kill him. I'm going to sue him. I'm going to..."I caught her wrist, stopping her. "Justina. Stop.""Let go of me. We need to go back.""And do what? Accuse a kid of theft without proof? Get into a screaming match in the parking lo

Huling Na-update : 2026-10-09

HUNDRED

JUSTINAGregor produced an umbrella from somewhere behind his seat, snapping it open with the confidence of a man who'd never once had it fail him, and the wind promptly turned it inside out the second we cleared the car. He swore, wrestling with the useless spokes while rain came down in sheets that soaked through my dress in the time it took to cross the gravel, and by the time we reached the door, I'd given up caring about the hair the stylist had spent an hour pinning into place.Nyssa stood in the doorway already, backlit and dry, her robe pulled tightly around her as the wind tore past her and into the foyer.“Thank God.” She stepped back, wrestling the door against the storm’s pull.Then she turned to Gregor. “This weather is terrifying. I was watching the coverage and thinking the worst. I’m so relieved you’re back safe.”Ruthless and cold as ever. I didn’t miss the fact that her relief, apparently, extended only to him.“Where’s Adonis?” I asked, cutting straight through whate

Huling Na-update : 2026-10-09

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