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David

I know I have a tail. Every time something happens or I go somewhere, my father knows exactly where I am.

But whoever he is, he's good. Even someone with experienced eyes like me can't identify it.

Nobody knows me. Well, that's not true. One person knows almost everything about me. Sousa, my partner.

Not even Theo, my best friend, knows what I've been doing in the last four years that I haven't returned to the US.

It's hard to keep this part of my life secret from Theo. I can trust him, but he would be in danger if he knew.

My father doesn't even dream. No one dreams, in reality, that the only good thing he, my father, did for me was send me to England.

God, I shudder to think what my fate would have been if he had decided to continue trying to shape me into his image.

He thinks he can do it now, without the rebelliousness of my 16-year-old self, but I'm not the same person he sent away.

However, when I searched Sarah's office and Simon's office here at home, I hadn't found any