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Beneath The Eyes

Author: Chidimma Eve
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-21 05:20:58

The file sat untouched on the breakfast table like a bomb no one dared breathe near.

Ava stared at it between sips of tea that had long gone cold. Its edges were crisp. Labeled neatly. Too neatly. Her name was printed across the front in clear, confident type: Ava Monroe.

No title. No warmth. Just judgment in Times New Roman.

Damon hadn’t so much as glanced at it since placing it there.

He sat across from her, reading something on his phone, as if this were any other morning. As if she weren’t quietly unraveling across the table.

She couldn't stand the silence anymore.

“So… you’re not going to open that?”

Damon didn’t look up. “Not yet.”

Her fingers tightened around her cup. “Why not?”

He finally raised his eyes. Calm. Cool. Far too neutral.

“I already know what’s inside.”

A pause.

Ava’s voice was too soft when it came. “Then why show it to me at all?”

“To see what you’d do.”

“And what am I doing?”

“Trying not to crack.”

His phone made a soft sound. He glanced at it, typed a single re
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