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Lily pov

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My head slammed onto the table. I felt a deep sense of longing, of a hole that seemed to rip its way through my heart.

It was terrible... I'd never really been this far away from Inari, and definitely not for this long. Not in the past, but now, there was considerable distance between us.

A whole states worth and I can blame him all I wanted. But it was my actions... or inaction as he sees it that drove him away. The ever growing city takes precedence. The wellbeing of the people in it. No matter how infuriating they are.

They're all his. All of them are... and so I want to do my best to manage them. And to grow this small burgeoning empire of his into one that spans the world. But that takes work. And I've neglected him.