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The Fire Between Us

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Fernando’s POV

The room was quiet, too quiet. That kind of silence that hangs heavy, wrapping around you like smoke, clinging until your lungs ache.

Michael moved about in it like a ghost, shoulders tense, hands restless.

He hadn’t spoken since we walked in. Not a word, not a sigh, nothing but the soft brush of fabric when he pulled his shirt over his head and dropped onto his body those casual shorts that did little to calm the storm in the room.

I watched him in secret, or maybe I wanted him to see me watching.

My gaze followed every small twitch of muscle under his skin, every line of tension across his back, every shadow his jaw cast beneath the dim bedside lamp.

My chest was bare now, cooled by the whisper of night air that slipped through the curtains.

I had removed my clothes deliberately, letting the fabric fall from me. All that clung to me now were my pyjama trousers, loose around my hips, as if I were offering him the freedom to look, though he wouldn’t.

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Osarumwense Osakue

🔥 What happens when Fernando’s control over Michael turns into something dangerous—and Michael begins to realize he might be caught in a trap he can’t escape? 👉 Keep reading to see how loyalty, desire, and betrayal collide in the next explosive chapter.

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