Red_Roses_and_Black_Dahlias_-_Macy_T

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TRUTH
MADDOX
Six days had passed since my little conversation with Adam. I couldn’t
stop thinking about what he’d said. When I talked to Sofia about it, she
seemed conflicted. She agreed with him, since it mostly met her own speech
from the night before, but I could see something was eating at her. The
deadline Piersons gave us ended tomorrow and Adam and I hadn’t worked
on it all week.
But I did take the files home, even though it went against protocol, to try
and see if there wasn’t something we had missed.
Every night after the girls went to sleep, I slipped into the living room and
went over everything we had. I knew that if Sofia or Adam noticed I was
doing it they’d be disappointed, but I just couldn’t let go of this case until I
knew I had gone through every possible resource at our disposal.
Other than that, life was good. Our routine worked amazingly, Valentina
was totally used to me and Sofia being together by now, but we still did our
best to hide it from the outside world. I hadn’t even taken her to a real date
yet, but it didn’t matter, everyday living together felt like a date to me.
I noticed Valentina trying to work up the courage to ask me to her
school’s Daddy-daughter dance over the last few days, but something always
seemed to keep her from doing so and I was glad. I wanted to be the one to
ask and I wanted it to be epic, something she’d remember and something that
would teach her not to settle for less from anyone in the future. I had
everything ready, the only thing left to do was pick up my plan’s masterpiece
from Adam’s and pray Sofia didn’t kill me.
Speaking of whom, today was my day off and I used it wisely. I was in the
process of moving all her things to my room after spending the better part of
the day making space for it. I wanted her former room to be like a workshop