Beneath the Shades
Trees so perfectly trimmed they look like they’ve never known a real wind.
When we finally slow down, my stomach tightens.
Because the mansion that appears behind the iron gates? It looks like something out of a movie. The old, expensive kind. Stone walls, tall columns, windows like dark, empty eyes. It’s the kind of house that could either host a royal family… or hide a dozen bodies in the basement.
No in-between.
The car rolls to a stop in the circular driveway, and I just sit there, gaping like an idiot.
My driver — still silent, still wearing those sunglasses like we’re in some mobster cosplay — opens the door.
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