Pressure of Love and legacy

ng against the window, her eyes filled with grief. The bruise on her jaw was swollen

frightened. Hoping that someone would show up. And yet, she still looked so c

ge beneath my penthouse, I half-expecte

d her."Sorry," I said quickly, trying to pull back."No, it's fine," sh

the elevator, floor after floor, into

uch, while I wrapped a blanket ar

t you some wa

I was hurt, in pain. To have found out my family had tried to erase her.

er, she didn't take it right

have come for m

had

. You don't eve

side her.

you've seen it. Th

cleaner. Not just an orphan

just worked quietly, if I stayed invisible long enough, I could find answers

aid softly. "You're truth.

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danger since the day I was born into t

. "They killed her, d

roof yet. But I

e spoke, with a teary voice, "Do you

anted you to survive. But I think sh

her eyes. "Th

. Because in that moment, she wasn't just a cl

hem touch you

't promi

an t

e. I wanted to reach for her

ill looked like

remember anything else f

g me out of bed. There was shouting, a man's voice I did

ed r

a ring with a crest. I saw it when he gr

fr

w tha

g only given to three people.

p at me. "You

breathed

. "Then he was th

es

od, but in violence. Dario had tried to eras

ly. "I need to go

ked. "

ion. The ruins. Whatever is the

en abandoned for a

thing's st

owly. "Okay

ne to make the arrangements,

ed. Her eyes darted

owed h

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r sc

ip

d pulling her to the floor just

ir, embedding into the wall b

h my body as more

neath me. "Th

nic button under the coffee table. Siren

hit the floor

lled her toward the privat

r

tairs. Through the

he emergenc

e 1. Breach in progre

nt st

ne wen

at me. "What'

toward

cut the

side, in the stairwell

n't time

maintenance door, pulling he

tting out

. "Ethan, what if

the doors started to close, a figure appeared

the doors shut completely wa

dmond