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CHAPTER 96: FOUR DAYS

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Alexander spread the documents across the penthouse table at eleven PM and did not sit down for forty minutes.

Elena watched him from the kitchen counter.

Not eating. Not working. Just watching him work, the way she had watched him in a dozen rooms over the last months, understanding now what she had only suspected then. That Alexander Knight processed the world through movement. Through the specific physical act of arranging information until it revealed its architecture. His grey eyes moving
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