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Then he headed down to the living room. Theodore and Jonathan were in the living room reading a newspaper. “Good morning, did you sleep well?” They indicated that they didn’t sleep well, they were thinking about their sister-in-law and the babies. He told them that he was tossing and turning, blaming himself for bringing harm to his daughter in love. The Housekeeper and Tamara were busy preparing breakfast. Theodore was reading the newspaper aloud. They were shocked when they saw the first page. It was about how the Edwards Group was founded.

"Can we go to the bookshop?" They went. The shop occupied a converted house three streets over, with a resident dog named Duchess who greeted Noah by name and a whole shelf dedicated to field guides that Noah navigated with the confidence of a regular. He selected three books with careful deliberation — one on Pacific Northwest raptors, one a slim volume on migratory patterns he'd apparently been eyeing for weeks, and a third that surprised Adrian: a novel about a woman who builds something from nothing, its cover showing a small house under construction against a wide sky. "That one's for Mom," Noah said, setting it on the counter with the others. "She'll like it. Because she's Mom."

So instead I would just look at the pictures of the funny pages and that was a source of entertainment. I lived in the small dusty attic that sat atop the house. It was filthy and filled with dust and mold that caused me to have breathing problems. It was occupied by rodents and pests but it's the only space I know. When I had the time and energy I would sit at the window and watch everyone who came by that was another form of entertainment. I lived vicariously through the people in my neighborhood. One day I overheard my mother telling people that I was a seriously ill child and could not interact with other people that's why I couldn't attend school or step outside the house. No one questi

After handling all the funerals, she took Keith's youngest son and returned to her hometown. I later heard that when the younger one got into university, the first thing he did was turn his back on her. "You treated me like a blood bag. Everything I achieved, I earned myself. What does it have to do with you?" The blow was too much. One night, quietly and alone, my mother died. I only learned about it from the news. We had long stopped being part of each other's lives. My own life is still long, and my future still bright.

I fought back with all my might, my eyes burning with tears. That memory was the hardest for me to talk about. I was the one who got hurt. I was the one who felt the most pain. However, none of them would help me. They did not believe that it happened to me. Only a stranger sent me a text, telling me to stay strong. I never thought they would learn the truth, but Shane showed them everything. The voices from the phone kept playing, and Patrick, in a rage, smashed the phone to bits. Jim and Calvin just stood there, stunned and white as ghosts.

Adrian Hale laughed, actual laughter, and she'd heard him laugh before but not like that, not in her kitchen with her mother telling stories. She thought: I didn't know this was possible. She thought: I built the wrong thing for five years. At the door, on his way out, he stopped. He turned, the same way he always did with the one more thing, and she stood ready for it. "The book," he said. "One Hundred Years of Solitude, with the coffee ring. I left it in your bag on purpose." She looked at him. "Page 212," he said. "You'll find the margin note."

I always had. Iris was the exception to every rule I had ever made for myself. The book sat on my desk, its cover facing me like an accusation. I had read it four times now. The first time I had been too furious to absorb anything beyond the fact that she had taken our private moments and bound them between covers for anyone with fifteen dollars to consume. The second time I had read more carefully, and what I found disturbed me in ways I hadn't anticipated.

It required him to stay inside memories he had trained himself to move past efficiently, to look at them long enough to describe them clearly, to find the words for things that had lived in him wordlessly for decades. Elena was the first reader of every chapter. She did not tell him the writing was beautiful when it was not yet working. She told him specifically what she did not understand, where she lost the thread, where she needed more. She treated his manuscript with the same rigorous honesty she brought to financial analysis, and he was grateful for it in a way he found difficult to articulate. The book was titled "Nothing Belonged to Me." It was published on a Thursday in March. By the

“Who are you?” “Why did you pick that book?” He asked again as he picked up the book. “It's my favorite. The book isn't cliche like the rest,” “There was no happy ending,” He voiced the same sentence in my mind. “Funny, it's my favorite book too.” “I'm sorry if I wasn't allowed to go through it,” I apologized, guessing he was the librarian. “I am supposed to be meeting the alpha here,” For a while, he said nothing but stared. His cold smile sent chills through me as I tried to avoid his gaze. I didn't know why but I suddenly lost my confidence and panic slowly began to slip in.

(Elisa’s POV) I loved how my life turned out. One minute, I was lying beside the road with a bullet wound from people I thought were my friends, and here I was living a life of crime and loving it. I looked at my watch, realizing how late I was to get to the restaurant, and said, “I have to go. I need to run the books for my bar and restaurant.” I turned to Lorenzo and asked, “Are you coming?” I asked since he had insisted on tagging along.