Chapter 12
The chat feed erupted with incoherent screeching.
[Holy shit, what did I miss? She was crawling around digging through a dumpster earlier, so I just assumed she was hungry.]
[Do not blame yourself, blame the stream for refusing to cut to a close-up. We never saw the newspaper in her hand and honestly thought she was eating trash.]
[We really need to reflect on why Alice, who is practically blind, could see that paper when we could not.]
[She may be half-blind, but strictly speaking, we’re the ones who are truly blind.]
The twin siblings on the twenty-ninth floor had been lured to the roof by their father the day before their eighteenth birthday.
Their father and his mistress then shoved them off the ledge together.
Their father was a gold digger who had married into the family solely to seize their
mother’s fortune.
To prevent the children from coming of age and inheriting the estate, the mistress concocted this vicious plot, and the father gave his approval.
Three years after the siblings died, the couple was sentenced to death. Their mother liquidated the company assets and vanished to travel the world, carrying nothing but two framed photographs.
I drained my tea cup as the tragic tale concluded. The twins watched me rise from the table, their eyes glistening with unshed tears
I paused at the threshold to gently dust off their shoulders.
“You two need to live now, even in this hellhole.”
“Hold onto that memory, and I promise you will see your mother again.”
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