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CHAPTER 228

ผู้เขียน: Olivia GW
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Damien’s POV

The morning light spilled through the blinds in thin, fractured lines. I’d been awake long before dawn — if you could call what I did sleeping.

The hotel was nice enough, discreet but expensive, with all the polished wood and crisp linen of a place that promised rest. But peace wasn’t something you could buy. Not when your nerves were stretched thin, not when you didn’t know where the next hit might come from.

Every sound had kept me on edge through the night — the creak of the floor above, the faint knock of pipes, the hum of the elevator down the hall. At one point, when room service arrived with breakfast, I almost drew my gun on the poor waiter.

The kid had gone pale as a sheet, muttering “Monsieur?” until I forced a strained smile and waved him off. When the door shut, my hands were still shaking.

It wasn’t fear — not exactly. It was the kind of tension that came when the silence lasted too long.

The quiet before a storm.

If Genevieve and Nico were watching me — and
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