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Even when the tears stopped falling and the sobs calmed, I did not feel a little more relaxed.
I was just tired.
Tired inside.
And as I felt myself founder, the only thought
that gave me a reason to exist was Pietro.
***
It was a cold winter, it had been raining incessantly for too many days to remember how many.
I was sorting invoices into the files, hidden by a shelf full of papers.
I hadn't heard Pietro approaching.
"I’ve found a place."
His warm breath on my neck left bare by my hair gathered on the nape of the neck confused me.
"Go down the stairs to the ground floor, then continue for two more ramps, where there are all those boxes. See you down there."
That said, he disappeared just as he had appeared, leaving me in the throes of a cyclone of emotions.
My arms felt heavy, and my legs did not support
me, my heart was thumping so fiercely that it seemed to me that everyone in the studio could hear it.
What was I to do?
Think.
Reflect.
I didn't give a damn about reflecting at that moment.