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Chapter 55
Chapter 55
I'm alone in the back seat of the black sedan that takes me todinner at my father’s house.
| look up at the grey stone mansion and grimace, not lookingforward to this. | know that there should probably be somecuriosity in me, some desire to know more about my family andmy heritage. But honestly? Lorenzo Alden doesn’t feel anythinglike my father. That, to me, will always be David.
Kent sent two guards with me and instructed them to stay by meat all times. For protection, presumably, but also | think-to be Kent’s eyes and ears at the meeting. Alden is his ally, but | thinkeven the term “ally” in this underworld has some tenuous distrustbuilt into it.
| had begged David to come with me but Kent denied that too.Alden, apparently, wanted me all to himself. Great. | was alreadyawkward enough, now | have to go into this alone? It wasdefinitely going to be a disaster.
The guards get out of the front of the car after they park andcome around to open my door. | step out and sigh, wishing | wasanywhere else. The stables, preferably, getting to know Heathcliff.
The three of us troupe up the front steps to the house and formally ring the bell. | twist my mouth at the irony here. If he’s my dad-if
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this is my house — shouldn’t | be able to walk right in?
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A maid opens it for us, giving us a kind smile, and then opens thedoor wide in welcome.
As we step in, | stop dead in my tracks. The guards almost bumpinto me.
“Are you okay?” one asks — Jerome, | think. One of the friendlierguards in Kent's employ.
“Yes,” | murmur in response, staring around the room.
But in reality? I’m totally not okay.
Walking into this house is like walking into a dream. I’ve been here before, | suddenly realize. | know things about this space —what's around some of the corners, what things will feel like, what it smells like. Even the rugs are familiar — a soft burnt orange,thick
and plush underneath my feet. The arch that leads into the dining. room — yes, | know that, and if | look just beyond it I'll find...
Yes, there. A hutch, filled with blue and white china.
“Oh my god,” | murmur, aharound as | slowly yyelhrou The
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the dining room.
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| ignore her — not really meaning tobe rude, but | can’t help myself as |walk to the back oft eApom end \0) shonencthe &s to the kitchen.The avocado green fridge and stoveare exactly as | remember them.Except, | didn’t know that | didremember them. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
| hear footsteps behind me. “Familiar, is it?”
| turn to see Alden standing there. | look at him with wide eyes.comment
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