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YEARS OF SHADOWS

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last update 게시일: 2026-09-04 04:36:19

"Every single day." Alessia repeated it back to him like the words might rearrange themselves into something less devastating if she said them slowly enough. "Five years. You had someone watching me every single day for five years, and you're telling me this now, standing in my kitchen, like it's a footnote."

"It's not a footnote. I know exactly what it is."

"Do you?" Her hands were shaking again. "Because I don't think you do, Nikolia. I don't think you understand what it feels like to learn t
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  • MY EX-HUSBAND IS ALIVE AND WANTS ME BACK    ALMOST A KISS

    Neither of them moved for what felt like a long time, though Alessia would later be unable to say whether it had actually been seconds or minutes, time having lost its usual shape somewhere in the charged silence between them."We should keep working," she said finally, though she made no move to pull her hand away."We should." Nikolia's voice was low, rough, equally unconvinced by his own agreement. "I don't seem to be very good at that particular instruction right now.""Neither am I." The admission slipped out before she could stop it, honest in a way she hadn't allowed herself to be with him in weeks.His thumb moved slightly against the back of her hand, barely a motion at all, and yet it sent something warm and dangerous racing up her arm, old memory and present longing tangling together until she couldn't quite tell which one she was actually responding to."Alessia." Her name again, quieter this time, almost reverent. "I need to tell you something.""What?""I've spent five y

  • MY EX-HUSBAND IS ALIVE AND WANTS ME BACK    LATE NIGHTS

    Rafael found his answer eventually, some careful, diplomatic combination of honesty and restraint that satisfied Adrian enough to return his attention to the blueprints, and the evening dissolved back into something resembling normalcy — Aria reciting stuffed animal backstories to anyone who'd listen, Nikolia and Rafael maintaining careful, cordial distance for the rest of the visit. Alessia watched both men leave within twenty minutes of each other, neither lingering long enough to force further conversation, and allowed herself a small measure of relief that the night hadn't ended in the kind of confrontation she'd been bracing for.It was three days later, working late in her office with the twins safely at a sleepover with Sienna's niece, that she found herself alone with Nikolia again — this time by necessity rather than accident, the Arc's compromised blueprints spread across her desk, both of them searching for anything Dele might have missed in his initial review."Here." Niko

  • MY EX-HUSBAND IS ALIVE AND WANTS ME BACK    TWINS' QUESTION

    The uneasy alliance between Nikolia and Rafael held, technically, over the following days — clipped emails, shared security briefings, careful professional courtesy maintained through gritted teeth on both sides. Alessia hadn't expected either of them to willingly spend time in the same physical space more than necessary, which was why she was surprised to find Rafael's car already in her driveway when she pulled up from the office that Thursday evening, a scheduled visit day for Nikolia already underway inside.She let herself in cautiously, bracing for tension, and found instead an unexpectedly ordinary scene — Rafael seated at the kitchen table, a set of blueprints spread in front of him, Adrian perched on the chair beside him studying the drawings with rapt fascination."What's going on here?" Alessia asked, setting down her bag."Rafael's teaching me about buildings," Adrian announced, without looking up. "Real ones. Not the drawing kind Mama does. The kind that actually get buil

  • MY EX-HUSBAND IS ALIVE AND WANTS ME BACK    COMMON GROUND

    Alessia spent two sleepless nights turning the sponsor list over in her mind before she made a decision she hated almost as much as she understood it was necessary."I need both of you," she said, standing in the small conference room she'd booked at neutral ground — not Sinclair Global, not Rafael's office, just a quiet meeting space two floors up from her own, deliberately chosen for its lack of history. "Together. In the same room, working through this like adults, because I don't have the bandwidth left to manage two separate conversations about the same threat."Nikolia arrived first, sharp and composed despite the early hour, and Rafael followed ten minutes later, his expression carefully neutral in a way that told Alessia he'd braced himself for exactly this kind of forced proximity."Gentlemen," she said, gesturing to the chairs across from her. "Devereux Capital is officially a co-sponsor of the biggest professional event of my career, happening in six months, with press, ind

  • MY EX-HUSBAND IS ALIVE AND WANTS ME BACK    GALA INVITATION

    Alessia left Rafael's office without another word, his silence following her down the hallway like something physical, one more locked door added to a growing collection she was beginning to feel would never fully open. She didn't cry until she reached her car. She allowed herself exactly three minutes behind the wheel before wiping her eyes, steadying her breath, and driving home to twins who deserved a mother capable of reading bedtime stories without her voice shaking.She didn't expect the following morning to bring anything resembling good news, and for a while, it almost did."This came in overnight," Preston said, sliding a heavy cream envelope across her desk, an uncharacteristic note of excitement in his voice that felt strange after the last several weeks. "I think you're going to want to see this before anything else today."Alessia opened it carefully, and felt something genuine — something unclouded by suspicion or dread — flicker to life for the first time in what felt l

  • MY EX-HUSBAND IS ALIVE AND WANTS ME BACK    RAFAEL'S WARNING

    Alessia drove straight from Sinclair Global to Bellamy Atelier, Viktor's cold composure and Nikolia's careful retreat still burning in her chest, and found herself, almost without deciding to, standing outside Rafael's office door for the first time since the day he'd hesitated over a question that had broken something between them.They hadn't spoken much since. A few clipped, necessary exchanges about the Kessler account, careful professional courtesy maintained across a distance neither of them had tried very hard to close. But Thursday's deadline was bearing down, and Rafael still had connections in the real estate and investment world that could help her understand exactly what she was facing.She knocked before she could talk herself out of it."Come in."He looked up from his desk, surprise crossing his face at the sight of her, quickly masked by the careful professionalism they'd both been using as armor for weeks. "Alessia. I wasn't expecting you.""I need your help." She clo

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