The Guy Next Door
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Last published Tue, Feb 25, 2025
After moving to Sicily for a fresh start, Giulia decides to take over her grandfather's art studio. A second attempt at saving her career as a failed painter. She hopes to explore art and fall in love with it again, hopefully resulting in opening up a Gallery to show off her work. Throughout her hectic mornings and nights, she finds herself running into her moody, mysterious next door neighbor. Who always happens to be busy with something, with either his job at Nexus Technologies, or whatever he did at night that he went out of his way to keep a secret. What is it that he was hiding? She had no clue..but she wanted to find out.
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