Author's note: this is from Duke's point of view
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I thought about how Sergio's plan might work. Well, at least it was something and that was better than nothing.
Part of me doubted if Sergio really wants me to find Sanya. Is it possible that he was involved in her disappearance? I shook those thoughts away. Doubting Sergio will not do us any good and he always acted in my best interest, but maybe that is the problem… He was never a supporter of my attachment to Sanya. At first, he welcomed it, thinking that it was a teenage crush, probably because it distracted me from the anger that was directed at my father. But in time, Sergio started asking me questions like, 'what makes her so special?', and on numerous occasions, he would encourage me to approach other girls with the hope that some of them will make me forget about Sanya.
He was nagging and I played along a few times, but I told him to stop when it crossed the line of flirting.
