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Chapter 8 – Our Boundaries

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(Sebastian s POV)

Control was my only constant.

It was how I built my empire. How I kept my enemies at bay. How I stayed alive.

But Ocean… she was undoing it one thread at a time.

I stood in my office, watching her move across the living room on the security feed. She didn’t know the cameras were there — she thought the penthouse was just expensive marble and glass, not a fortress with eyes in every corner.

She was pacing. Stopping to glance out the windows, then pacing again.

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