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She sent that and paused, lifting a hand to rub at the faint, stubborn headache that wouldn’t go away no matter how much water she drank or how much sleep she got, which never felt at all like enough.

I don’t know when that will be, because you’ve fallen off the face of the planet and believe me, I know how hard it is to locate Achilles Casilieris when he doesn’t wish to be found. But if you don’t show up soon, I’m going to marry your husband and I didn’t sign up to pretend to be you for the rest of my life. I agreed to six weeks and it’s nearly been that.

She waited for long moments, willing the other woman to text back. To give her some clue about...anything. To remind her that she wasn’t alone in this madness despite how often and how deeply she felt she was.

If you’re not careful, you’ll be Natalie Monette forever. Nobody wants that.

But there was nothing.

So Natalie did the only thing she could do. She got to her feet, ignored her headache and that dragging exhaustion that had been tugging at her for over a week now, and went out to play Valentina.

Again.

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