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Chapter 6

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Rhys’s POV

I stood at the window of my corner suite on the forty-second floor, hands in my pockets, watching the city below move in its usual hurried rhythm.

Cars crawled along the avenues like ants, pedestrians streamed across crosswalks, and the late-afternoon sun cut long shadows between the buildings. It was the kind of view that used to ground me, a proof that everything kept turning, no matter what happened inside these walls. Lately, it just made me feel distant.

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