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The next day. And the next.

We did not see each other.

All that false hope to see him. Gone.

I avoided him. I could do nothing. Just a helpless. Fragile. Human girl.

Tanaka I saw. And the housekeeper I saw.

I kept to myself. Taking walks in the garden. Pacing the space between us.

I knew I had to be strong. But this went beyond what I could be saved for.

I walked to my room.

There he stood.

Alone. In front. Of. My door.

The air around him seemed alive yet devours the light.

I had one question.

He turns. He sees me. He comes. Quiet as a shadow.

I gulp and bring myself to ask.

That one simple question.

"Did my father know? About you?"

The words barely pass through my lips. As I wait.

I grow scared of the answer.

Yet it comes.

"Yes,"

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