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I heard her voice from behind me, and I slowly turned around

One look at“Lars toldaround the house like a madman—” She looked at all the weapons that covered my body, and instantly, her eyes watered with unshed tears “What’s happened?”

“I don’t have tio” I opened the door and walked out

She followed me “Crow! Let me—”

“No” I got to the car and stuffed the guns in the trunk “There’s no time I have to leave”

“Who is it?” she whispered “Please don’t say—”

“Conway”

She covered her face, the tears falling “No…” My as tough, hard as steel, but when it came to her kids, it was a different story “God, no What—”

“I don’t have tis put a hit on him That’s all I know Cane and I have to leave for Milan now”

She kept crying, but she didn’t try to stopShe followedour son back, Crow Please”

“I will, Button You knoill” I didn’t kiss her goodbye or hug her to coain as I shut the door, started the engine, and sped out of the driveway, hitting seventy within three seconds I didn’t glance at her in the rearview mirror, unable to look at the mother of my children

The mother of my son

Two

Vanessa

Antonio and I were taking it slow

I still hadn’t kissed him yet

He’d tried a few tiht to me after dinner

But I never said yes

No matter how much time had passed, it always seeoodbye to me at the little house we’d stayed in It seeht before Soht I sh that wasn’t possible

Would I ever be over him?

Maybe it wasn’t possible

I was sitting at the easel inIt wasn’t my best work, and I was teet it ever happened I’d been selling sorushed stifled my work I couldn’t be creative when there was so much pressure to produce new pieces