AARÓN CONNOR

ITALY

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I've been tossing all night long thinking about Violet not coming back. I’ve walked this damn town from one end to the other, checked every corner where I thought she might be hiding or left a trace — but nothing. It's like the fucking earth swallowed her whole… or like she was never here at all.

"Where are you, pastelito?" I mutter under my breath, my fists clenching tight. I can't just sit still while my mind tortures me with images I don’t want to keep seeing.

My blood boils, restless in my veins, knowing absolutely nothing about where she is. I feel like I’m gonna explode if I don’t get some kind of answer soon. Every second I spend without knowing where she is feels like a fresh wound slowly killing me. That’s when my phone rings on the desk and I grab it fast — almost desperate — without checking who it is. As if I already knew there was a chance it could be her.

"You should've been in Greyville by now," Kody says on the other line. "The constructi