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Penulis: Denise
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Sophia

I didn’t expect to be the first one awake, but I was. I got out of bed early, noticing that Bright was still asleep. I wasn’t going to stay with him after the barely-there conversation we had last night. I needed something else to distract my mind, something that had nothing to do with him. I needed to escape the thoughts of what happened last night… how Bright had come to my room looking for shelter, for company… maybe for love. But we hadn’t talked about anything.

He just came to tell me he loved me, to sleep beside me but made it very clear that he didn’t want to talk about it. He left me with a mouth full of questions. I refused to keep my mouth shut, but none of my words got through to him. Nothing. Just more silence. More hugs. And an uncertainty that grew heavier and heavier inside me. The most contradictory hug and silence anyone had ever given me.

That’s why, when I woke up, I got out of bed and decided to go down to the kitchen. I offered to help the cooks with breakf
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  • Broken Bonds: Beyond Destiny   161

    Sophia As I closed the meeting room door, the air in the hallway felt lighter, though inside me the weight of my conversation with Stefan still lingered. I took a few aimless steps, trying to sort out my thoughts, until I saw Dante leaning against the wall directly across from me.I froze in place. “What are you doing here?” I asked, a little surprised. “I forgot my lucky pen,” he replied with a half-smile, as if that were the most logical thing in the world.I looked at him for a few seconds, processing his answer, and finally nodded. “Oh… right.”Dante straightened and walked past me. When he opened the door, he stepped into the room with that relaxed confidence he never seemed to lose. I stayed in the hallway, watching him search. His gaze wandered over the meeting table, the papers, the folders… until he found it, right next to where I had been sitting just minutes earlier.“Here it is,” he said, lifting it slightly as if it were a trophy.I smiled faintly, unable to help it.

  • Broken Bonds: Beyond Destiny   160

    Sophia The other meeting rooms had completely emptied. The murmur of conversations and the scrape of chairs dragging against the floor still lingered in the air, like an echo that refused to fade away. I stood there, facing Stefan, feeling the silence settle in the hallway, looking straight at him. Both of us are uncomfortable. Both of us are in different realities. It was clear this wasn’t an easy conversation for him.The footsteps in the hallway stopped. Apparently, there was no one else left nearby. I wasn’t sure if that was good or bad. I didn’t know if the silence was a blessing or not.Stefan didn’t seem in a hurry to speak. His hands rested in his pockets, his gaze fixed on me with an intensity that made me uneasy. It wasn’t an aggressive discomfort, but rather a quiet weight that made me lower my eyes. The tension in the air was thick enough to cut with a knife.He looked at me, and I felt guilty, as if I had committed a crime.For a while, I hadn’t seen Stefan because I had

  • Broken Bonds: Beyond Destiny   159

    Sophia There were moments when I felt like life was testing me on purpose, as if it were playing a game to see how much I could endure before breaking or going insane. Being in that room, surrounded by all of them, was one of those moments. The sunset light filtered weakly through the large windows of the meeting room, casting an orange glow that, under different circumstances, might have felt warm and comforting. But not now. Not with Bright next to me, Dante leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, James sitting at the far end of the room with that defiant attitude I had grown far too familiar with, and Stefan… right in front of me, as if fate were mocking my attempts to keep up appearances. The tension was so thick I could feel it tightening in my throat, settling like a stone in my stomach. There was an artificial silence, one not born from respect or focus, but from all the unsaid words hanging in the air. We all pretended we were there for formal reasons, as if our pre

  • Broken Bonds: Beyond Destiny   158

    Sophia The elevator stopped on the executive floor, and I stepped out before Bright. The sound of my heels echoed down the silent hallway, bouncing off the sterile white walls of the company. Although everything seemed normal, there was a lingering tension that had been tightening my chest since we left the house. It felt like an invisible thread connected our every move, pulling tighter each time we got too close to the truth neither of us dared to say out loud.We entered the meeting room together. It was empty, as expected. There were still a few minutes before the others arrived. I took my usual seat at the side of the glass table, while Bright sat beside me, as if to offer mutual support. Though he hadn’t said a word since we left the car, his presence was solid, like he was trying to shield me just by being close.I took a deep breath and crossed my legs, trying to mask the unease I felt. The last time we were here together, things had been different. The last time Bright had b

  • Broken Bonds: Beyond Destiny   157

    BrightThe idea had been circling in my mind for days. It had settled like a persistent buzz in the background of my thoughts, growing louder every time I looked at Sophia and remembered how close she had come to being kidnapped. And how awful I felt for not being able to protect her.Dante.That name was a thorn in my side. I had no evidence, no concrete facts, just something in my gut. That instinct that had rarely failed me. It kept telling me something wasn’t right. That there were loose pieces in this puzzle, and every time I tried to fit them together, Dante’s face appeared in my mind.It didn’t make sense. Why would he want to hurt Sophia? He was supposed to protect her. He acted caring, kind, and even gentle. And that’s exactly what unsettled me. It was all too perfect. Too convenient. What better way to get close to her, to always be around, than to show up as her savior right when she needed someone the most?I couldn’t prove it. I had no solid proof. And I didn’t want to so

  • Broken Bonds: Beyond Destiny   156

    Sophia The coffee cup burned gently between my hands, but the heat wasn’t uncomfortable. It was comforting. I snuggled a little closer to Bright, who had one firm arm wrapped around me while holding his own cup in the other hand. The silence in the living room was thick, but not awkward. It was just us, and for the first time in a long while, I felt a kind of peace amidst all the chaos.“That conversation was insane. God,” Bright murmured suddenly, breaking the silence. His voice was hoarse, as if he hadn’t spoken in days, though I knew it was exhaustion that gave it that raw edge. “The conversation with James was one of the tensest I’ve had in years.”I looked at him, frowning with concern. “What happened?” “I was alone with him because the others didn’t arrive on time like we did.”Bright lowered his gaze to the dark liquid in his cup, as if trying to find the right words there. “He did what I expected. He threatened to fire me. Said he doesn’t want me there, that my presence bo

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