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Chapter 95: Borrowed Time

Author: Freda
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-22 23:54:37

The silence in the Steele mansion felt heavier than usual. Not the comfortable quiet of wealth and power, but the silence of something being pulled too tight, stretched to the point of snapping. Sierra walked through the wide marble hallway with careful steps, her pulse thrumming in her ears, every nerve tuned to the faintest sound. She could still hear Vanessa’s voice from last night echoing inside her head sharp, suspicious, demanding. And Damien’s response was controlled, dismissive, but edged with something darker.

She hadn’t meant to overhear them. She’d only been standing near the staircase, frozen halfway up, clutching the banister when Vanessa’s words had spilled out: “You’ve changed, Damien. Don’t think I don’t notice.”

It had taken every ounce of willpower not to move, not to breathe, not to let her presence give her away. And then Damien’s low, almost silken voice cutting back: “You’re imagining shadows where there are none.”

But Sierra knew Vanessa wasn’t imagining things.
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