The Price We Pay for Love - Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Two: O Holy Break of Day
He felt a piece of his soul die when he read the notice in the paper. It crashed, collapsed, and sputtered like a car running out of gas.
It wasn't so much that he was entirely fond of the woman personally, but he recognized her importance, her significance, and knew what it would do to the person he cared the most for in the world if the news was true. The small article was rather innocuous itself, barely a paragraph located haphazardly in the Arts and Culture section of Sunnydale's one and only paper. Despite the fact that he now lived in LA and had for some time, Angel still subscribed to his former hometown's daily journal. While he wasn't sure if he would do anything to help or not, he at least wanted to know if something was wrong in Buffy's life, and he knew better than to expect her to contact him if something was amiss... not after how she had reacted that one Thanksgiving.
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