"Funny how everyone’s got their own mansion, yet somehow I never get to breathe."

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I step out onto the stone balcony, wrapping my robe tighter around me as the suburban wind brushes my face. It’s quiet out here. Too quiet. No Adele clicking around in stilettos. No guards watching every blink I make. No Reo barking orders like he runs the entire damn world. Just me, the sky, and the slow buzz of a phone call clinging to my ear.

“Yeah, Ma… I’m back at Leo’s now,” I mutter as I pace along the railing. “Yeah, the one in the suburbs. The one with the peach trees and that...