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Thirty-five: Her father
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2021-07-20 09:43:41“I’m going home,” I announced to the man when I talk to him for breakfast.
A few minutes after I read that text, the man just left the room. He doesn’t know what I had just found out and whatever I was thinking.
He was shocked when he faced me. “What? Wait, Av, why?” Cormac asked.
I was still drowning in my thoughts, especially since the truth had suddenly been thrown at me.
What did that really mean, then? What about the watch? What if my daddy had such a watch then? Did they already know about the identity of the murderer’s ally?
How about my brother? Is he suspicious of our father as well? Why do they have to hide that thing from me?
Dad.
I have to go to my father.
“Avery?”
“I have to do something. . . at–at work,” I replied. Take care of whatever else he might think.
How did they keep this matter a secret from me? Wh
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