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CRUEL OBSESSION 51
⸻ CHAPTER 51 — TEMPTATION AND TENSION The evening had come suddenly, folding the mansion in shadows and gold from the dying sun. Sienna had finished her day’s tasks, moving through the house with quiet precision. But there was a restlessness she couldn’t shake—the way the air felt heavier, warmer, the faint scent of him lingering as if he had walked through every hallway even when he wasn’t there. Damien found her in the library. She was perched on the edge of a velvet armchair, book open but largely ignored, fingers tracing the edges of the pages. The faint crackle of the fireplace punctuated the silence, the orange glow flickering across her face. For a moment, he simply watched her. Something about her stillness, her control, made the ache in his chest sharper. He wanted to break her, yes—but not in cruelty. Not in malice. He wanted to break through her calm, to pull her into a world where they could exist without walls, without restraint, where every hesitation and doubt dis
CRUEL OBSESSION 50
⸻ CHAPTER 50 — WHEN SILENCE SPEAKS LOUDER The house had changed. Not its walls, not the furniture, not even the air itself—but the energy that threaded through it, invisible yet palpable, had shifted. Every footstep, every glance, every whispered word carried weight. Sienna and Damien moved through it like magnets with uneven polarity—sometimes close, sometimes repelled—but always aware of the pull between them. ⸻ Sienna woke to the faint hum of morning sunlight spilling through the tall windows. She lay still for a few long seconds, feeling the quiet. Not the kind of quiet that comforted, but the kind that demanded attention. Silence that reminded her she was alone—sometimes, for her own peace; sometimes, because someone she once expected to be there wasn’t. Damien had left early. No note. No whispered promise. Only absence. She dressed quickly, opting for simplicity: muted tones, sleek lines. No jewelry except her wedding band, the weight on her finger a constant reminder tha
CRUEL OBSESSION 49
CHAPTER 49 — WHEN THE HOUSE LISTENS Morning arrived without mercy. Light spilled through the tall windows of the Westwood estate, pale and intrusive, cutting through the quiet like a blade. The house woke slowly—maids moving softly, doors opening and closing with practiced care—but the tension lingered, thick and unmoving, like fog that refused to lift. Sienna had been awake long before the sun. She lay on her side, facing the window, her body still and her thoughts loud. Sleep had come in fragments—brief, shallow moments before she woke again, heart racing for reasons she refused to name. Damien had not come to bed. She knew that without checking. There was a particular weight to absence when you had grown used to someone’s presence—even when that presence had once felt heavy, uncertain, unfinished. She had spent months learning his rhythms. The quiet way he entered rooms. The way he stood at windows when thinking. The way silence clung to him like a second skin. And now she
CRUEL OBSESSION 48
CHAPTER 48 — THE SPACE BETWEEN BREATHS The house had learned their silence. It moved differently around them now—quieter, cautious, as though the walls themselves understood that something delicate had cracked and no one was sure how to touch it without making it worse. Damien noticed it first in the evenings. The way the halls felt longer. The way the rooms felt emptier even when they weren’t. Sienna no longer lingered in shared spaces. She didn’t sit in the drawing room with a book she wasn’t reading. She didn’t wait in the library, pretending she hadn’t heard his footsteps. She didn’t hover near doors, half-hoping he’d choose her by accident. She moved with intention now. When she entered a room, she knew why. When she left, she didn’t look back. And Damien—who had spent most of his life mastering distance—had never felt so disarmed by it. Tonight, the dining room was too large. The table stretched between them, polished and immaculate, every place setting perfectly alig
CRUEL OBSESSION 47
CHAPTER 47 — THE WAR WITHOUT GUNS Damien told himself it didn’t matter. That was the lie he repeated as the days passed. Three of them. Three days of polite distance. Three days of carefully measured interactions that felt worse than shouting ever could. Sienna spoke when spoken to. She responded when necessary. She existed within the same walls as him without ever truly meeting him. She had perfected absence. At breakfast, she sat across the table with her posture straight and her attention on her plate. She did not glance at him when he entered. When Eleanor spoke, Sienna listened respectfully. When Vanessa made her thinly veiled remarks, Sienna smiled faintly and said nothing. Damien watched it all from behind his coffee cup. She was calm. Too calm. It unsettled him more than her earlier defiance ever had. He noticed the small things first. She stopped waiting for him in the evenings. Stopped lingering in shared spaces. Stopped trying. No quiet conversations. No ten
CRUEL OBSESSION 46
CHAPTER 46 — THE QUIET BETWEEN THEM Sienna did not cry when she reached her room. That surprised her. She closed the door softly behind herself, the familiar click sounding final, then leaned her back against the wood for a moment longer than necessary. The room was quiet—too quiet—and for a second she simply stood there, breathing, letting the silence settle into her bones. Her chest ached, but her eyes remained dry. She crossed the room slowly, as if moving too fast might make something inside her fracture. The curtains were still drawn from the morning. Pale light filtered through, dust motes drifting lazily in the air. Everything looked untouched. Controlled. Orderly. Just like the dining room had been. Just like Damien. She sat on the edge of the bed and stared at her hands. They were steady. That was new. Weeks ago—months ago—she would have replayed the moment over and over, wondering what she’d done wrong, wondering how she could have spoken differently, softer, bett
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