The next day found Ivo helping Letícia with her breakfast with a grim face. Letícia kept trying to catch his eye, but it wasn't until Guilherme left for work that he met her wondering gaze and said, "It's done. Stop looking at me like that."
She slumped in her seat, like a marionette whose strings had been cut. "Good. I don't think he would have let me back in his room."
Ivo didn't want to think about the commotion late last night outside his guest bedroom, so he just grunted in acknowledgement and told Letícia to hurry up.
She didn't understand the reason for his terrible mood, but thankfully wasn't inclined to ask.
Davi kept his distance the entire morning, sticking to his post in the living room.
By the time Ivo left to take Letícia to school he hadn't moved from there.
The ride was uneventful, but after dropping her off at the gates, Ivo approached driver with the same request he'd made the first day.
Ivo: hello darkness my old friend
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fun fact: my novels are always pretty evenly split among demographic groups, but this is the first novel where men account for the largest percentage of readers (among, men, women and unknown). I get the impression that there might be some straight men honest to god just reading for the plot