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Cover-Up
Iris woke up early to do her makeup before work. Her face was badly swollen. Her one eye was black and blue where Julian’s fist had smashed into her. Thank goodness it was only slightly swollen. She could camouflage that. She looked worse today than when it happened. Buffer studied his mistress, trying to decipher why she was up before the sun.
“Please let him be safe. Please let him be safe. Please let him be safe.” Her mantra started when she opened her eyes and continued until she got to the store. She knew she had to go in. It was the only place she’d learn what was happening at the camp. The camp had become the source of complete fascination now that the locals knew the Italians’ time in their fair city was coming to an end. It was as if they’d come full circle. Once co
