Chapter 42
The Distance Between Us
(Andrew’s POV)
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All my life, I have been taught that silence of people around you pulsating towards you signifies the fear they have for you.
As a mafia heir, I was made to feed on fear, and control not to be controlled.
So instilling fear was the best way to control and to silence anyone up.
I used to believe that silence was a sign of control.
That if I said less, showed less, felt less, I would remain untouchable. Invincible.
But silence, I've come to learn, is just another kind of noise, the worst kind.
Because it echoes.
And right now, her silence is the loudest thing in this goddamned house.
A silence that keeps on peircing my heart deeper every passing second.
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Mary didn’t ask me about the black envelope.
Not directly.
But
