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Chapter 9- Cracks In The Glass

Author: Jechera
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BROOKLYN

The silence the next morning felt louder than any champagne splash.

The East Wing of the mansion was as still as a museum. Not the kind with noisy school kids and clunky audio guides—but the type with velvet ropes and cold marble floors, where even your breath felt like a disturbance. Elliot didn’t go to school because he didn’t want to. Can’t blame the little boy.

After last night, I thought… I don’t know what I thought.

Maybe that we were inching toward something real. Or at least something less fake.

Dominic had given me his jacket when Isabelle drenched me in champagne like she was baptizing me with hate. He stood beside me. Chose me. Backed me up, even in front of his wicked ex.

And now? Nothing. Not even a knock. Not even a dry, clipped “good morning.”

I stood near the massive window in my room, staring out at the garden maze I had no intention of ever entering, arms crossed over the hoodie I’d thrown on.

But Dominic? Literally avoided me.

I walked out into the hall, m
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