AFTER THE FALL; HER SIDE OF THE STORY

ENZO

with increased number of investors as they kept throwing themselves a

that's because I've never felt mo

a smile as if I had just cured something terminal. I nodded, shook a few hands, mumbl

ere in my heart, I was still waiting for s

new was that in a blink, I was already in my penthouse, my tie had

in my head like it always doe

but what did you do

ashes as it drifted away while I convin

d so, It tasted like regret although rec

e, I realized It's fake and that it was electri

should be, "I", should be unstoppable because I'm Vincenzo

n and there's nothing left to distra

y she used to fall asleep mid-sentence, with her fingers sti

t day. Her screams, the gun shots, and th

! I was drunk, grieving and heartbroken. But what's the point I said those wor

municating with Jasmine, I'm very much aware of that. Although Mira won't

t, I do

the pain behind my eyes

ng call, I picked the call and it was Logan. Of course, what Loga

," he said, while ski

tter be about the Iran

er. It's ab

chest tighten

ightened my hand around

out him"

rket where the arms broker are. He has the same scar on his right

mmediately he said that an

ead," I sai

not." H

t if I don't, I'll end up saying somet

to shake the noise out of my head. Rafael was the best

s it is now. I pulled out my phone and dialed Mira's number but she

nstead "I need to talk to y

sponse almost

me five years ago." Ouch! and it

about Rafael, Please. Just gi

was more bru

u destroyed the last on

fingers hovered over it, be

t listen. I got up immedia

own worn but It's still thick. It's Jasmine's file. It contained her photos, old addresses, social circles

ed showing in galleries a year later. The press

articles and sure eno

ferent, stronger

tioned myself. No, probably not

t dig

Deluca was there. The art director that

looked.

as there as a host at exhibitions, they traveled togeth

s one contained only her. But then, ther

ut five years who ha

Castillo spotted at Hyde Park with da

uld she possib

My heart slammed against my

the tilt of her head. "It can't be, but I'm

ered and It cl

om the desk, wit

everything, and no

to London immediately without any plan or warning.

he only person I ever love