Author's note: this is from Seraphina's point of view
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~ London ~
I was giddy while going to meet with Duke in person after more than two weeks of video chats.
He is waiting for me at the sweetshop we frequented during our high school days, and I'm less than five minutes away.
I wonder how Duke will react when he sees Aldus with me. I hope he doesn't freak out because I'm freaking out.
But let me start from the beginning…
It's more than two weeks since Luca's birthday party, and many things have happened since then.
Only one day after we spoke with Sergio in Nice, Sergio secured apartment 5B in the building where Sergio and Duke live. The tenants moved the next day, and immediately the renovation started.
The apartment 5B was in good shape, so nothing excessive was done; a deep clean, a fresh coat of paint, a new bathtub and sink, replacing existing shelving in the closet, and I got busy picking furniture online.
