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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The Storm in His Veins

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last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-09-03 03:08:26

AIDEN'S POV

I shut the office door harder than necessary. The click echoed in the silence, a sound too sharp, too final.

The office was dark except for the faint glow of the desk lamp. I hadn’t bothered turning on the overhead lights. Darkness felt easier tonight, quieter, though not really. Inside me, there was no quiet, no peace, just the pounding weight of too many thoughts, too many emotions, too much pride burning through my veins like fire.

I sat. I stood. I paced. I sat again. None of it helped. My anger was at a higher level.

Charlotte had moved.

She had actually taken her things and walked out of my room. Out of the bed where I wanted her, even when I didn’t say it. Out of the space where my pride demanded she stay because she was my wife, whether she liked it or not.

And the worst part? I had seen it coming. The way she looked at me these past few days, tired, torn, yet stubborn. The speech I overheard when I wanted to go back to the room replayed in my mind like a curse:
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