Domenico
The cover wasn’t familiar, but it was also scuffed and torn.
A shudder rolled through me at the book’s mistreatment, but by the many dog-eared pages, it was much loved.
“Tolstoy?” I asked as I read the author’s name. In my hands was one of Tolstoy’s greatest novels, and one I could admit I’d never read—War and Peace.
I looked up at him but he was back in his shadow, talking to Marco, though his eyes never left me.
I flipped open the pages, happy to have something to read again, since my unfinished book was somewhere in my bag that they’d done who knows what with. I greatly missed reading and was desperate for anything to help get my head out of my present situation.
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