ALMS TO LOVE
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She smiled too gentle, too serene and hung up before Madam Jamaica had a chance to respond.
The silence that came after was a deaf one. The rain alone, pattering softly on the penthouse windows, interrupted it. The glow of her laptop bathed her in cold blue light; the city outside seemed drowned in it, its glass skyscrapers like skeletons underwater.
Marie remained motionless, her image floating on the black screen perfect, poised, poisonous. And then she laughed, a low, hollow sound. "Pray for her health," she whispered to herself, tasting hypocrisy. "Oh, I will."
She turned back toward the window, her silk robe sliding off one shoulder. Far below, Makati’s skyline pulsed with white light
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