Chapter 206

"Did he just say 'Good day to you, Lily'?" Rune inquired, sitting across from me in a chair while I lounged on the bed. "Surely, there's more to his call than that."

Well, it wasn't all...

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"... how did you get my number—what the hell do you want?"

"Easy, easy now. One question at a time. Concerning how I got your number: you should put a leash on your cousin. His obsession is getting crazy." he laughed, sending a cold chill down my spine, "Now to the question: what do I want? I don't even know."

I'm standing in an open space, a hundred steps away from Nonna, talking to a man who was once on the verge of killing me.

"Oh, oh, I remember," he grunted, "Gradually losing hold of my sanity. Now that I think of it, did I ever have it?"

And rapidly, I found anger replacing my terror: anger at everything he had put me through in the guise of playing a game, anger at the life he ruined.

"What do you want, you son of a bitch?"

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