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Summer was supposed to be quiet - one last stretch of disappointment before his final year of Sixth Form. Instead, Regulus is stuck answering phones in his father’s ministry office, a pointless favour dressed up as work experience.
The first time Barty calls, he asks for his father.
The second time, he doesn’t.He’s clever, composed, and disturbingly consistent.
By the time Regulus learns obsession is no substitute for affection, it's already too late.With absent friends, a brother on the brink of burnout, and parents too busy performing normalcy to notice, Regulus is left waiting for the phone to ring - and dreading the moment it does.