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You are not but a contract

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ANDRE'S POV

Camila’s voice faded into the background as Kiera tugged her toward the breakfast room, both of them alight with girlish energy I hadn't seen in years. It made me smile, it's been long since the three of us were together and so this made me smile a bunch, but my mind somehow drifted off to Genevieve and how she reacted this morning.

I trailed behind them, my body present but mind tethered to the woman upstairs wrapped in a towel and a war of silences. Genevieve's voice lingered in my head“Introduce me as what?” a blade disguised as a question.

Camila chatted about croissants, the disaster of men in Milan, and how she’d nearly punched a French nobleman for trying to buy her virtue with a yacht. Kiera howled with laughter, hanging on every word. They were oblivious to the storm rumbling under my skin.

The moment we stepped into the breakfast room, the staff rushed to serve. Platters of roasted vegetables, sliced fruit, toast, eggs, smoked meats an unnecessary display, but e
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