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61|La Famiglia
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Across town, at a family-owned restaurant whose speciality is all things Italian, in a secluded corner booth reserved for very important people like his parents, Liam was just as miserable as the woman he'd kissed on impulse in the printing room earlier in the week.
He was seriously glad his shitty week is finally over. Now he can drink himself to a stupor and forget all the shit with Eden.
He glumly picked at his starter—a hearty minestrone soup— and silently fumed over their latest confrontation in his office.
He'd called her in because he'd wanted to have an open, honest conversation with her about their relationship, and offer her an olive branch of some sort. But the minute Eden put up walls around her again, the same walls that took him over a month to break down, the lengthy apology speech he'd prepared flew right out of the window—
"—Darling, is everything okay?" His mom’s voice cut through his thoughts, and Liam looked up from his soup, start
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