LORENZO
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When I walked out of the kitchen, I didn’t go far. I stopped by the hallway and let the silence settle around me. I knew the question would be asked one day but I didn’t expect that day to come so soon. For the first time, I was caught off guard.
It wasn’t like I didn’t have a lie ready. I did. I just didn’t want to use it.
For some reason, I couldn’t look her in the eye and intensify her hate for me. Not when she looked at me with that mix of fear, hate, and something close to curiosity. I loved where we were at the moment. One more lie would have pushed her to a point I wouldn’t be able to bring her back from.
I wasn’t sure why that mattered but all she needed to know was that I killed her parents.
When I got to my office, Ricardo was there, sitting on the chair with hi
