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Chapter 29: Silent hostility
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The past few days Leopold and I have barely spoken to each other. We haven’t watched movies together, or had lunch together, or done any of the things we used to do before the photo shoot and the awkward encounter with his super model one-night-stand Ann Marie.
When we are at the office, we limit our interactions to work-related issues and, at home, we both stay in our rooms for the most part, and if we happened to cross paths in th
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